20th-century Actor Quotes

Eduardo De Filippo

Marlon Brando

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Johnny Depp

Leonardo DiCaprio

Brad Pitt

Sean Connery

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Vinny Guadagnino

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

Howard K. Smith

There are so many different phases of stuttering, and it always breaks my heart. I always wish I could say, 'When I'm done hugging you... your stuttering will be gone.'

Nicholas Brendon

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

Richard Griffiths

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.

Every person is the star of their life story. No one goes through the world thinking: 'Well, I'm just a cameo'.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, "I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be." I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.

What is destined to happen will happen. Victory and defeat are like light and darkness.

Sometimes you don't get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

I used to be under the impression that in some kind of wanky, bullshit way, acting was like therapy: you get in and grapple with and exorcise all those demons inside of you. I don't believe that anymore. It's like a snow shaker. You shake the thing up, but it can't escape the glass. It can't get out. And it will settle until the next time you shake it up.

Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?

Edward G. Robinson

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Mark Billingham

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

I think Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I treat all film roles one way: very seriously," exclaims Pleasence. "I never play anything tongue-in-cheek, though at times it might appear that way. I'm a professional actor who has no particular approach to acting. I get the part, I read the script. If I decide to do it, I learn the lines. People expecting a longwinded explanation on my approach will be disappointed. I have no theory about acting. There is no method, there is no way. I just do it.

Donald Pleasence