20th-century Actor Quotes

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.

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

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

People really seem to have enjoyed The Tick. I think because it's odd and quirky and not mainstream, that people that are fans of The Tick love to talk about it, bring it up, and I certainly appreciate that. I felt like it was something special when we made it, and it was very disappointing when our network was not going to support it. I guess about eight years later, we proved the network wrong. Once again, the guys in suits made a big, big mistake, and they're all big jerks.

Patrick Warburton

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-A-Roni aside.

Michael O'Donoghue

I don't feel like a heart-throb. I don't really know how to get used to it. It's all quite bizarre.

William Moseley

Rosey Grier, immortalized in needlepoint - and by my own hands to boot! If anyone would have told me that I would go from football to needlepoint, I would have laughed in their face. In fact, the whole thing started as a joke, but it's turned into one of the most enjoyable and satisfying things I've ever done. I try to turn other guys on to needlepoint wherever I go - from the dude sitting next to me on a plane to the guy working behind the scenes on a movie set. 'Smile all you want,' I tell them, 'but if you try it once, you'll keep on coming back for more,' and that's the truth brother.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles; now they have the land and we have the bibles.

In a world where there is enlightenment, intelligence, kindness, awareness of others' needs and others' well-being, there is no terrorism. And in a world of viciousness and narrow-mindedness and only one way, there will be terrorism. Our challenge, in our country, is to find a way to disagree amongst ourselves without being so awful about it.

I've just spent an hour talking to Tallulah [Bankhead] for a few minutes.

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'?

Micheál Mac Liammóir

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

Being seventy-five means you sometimes get up in the morning and feel like a bent hairpin.

When you're working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive. You become his concubine. All that you seek is his pleasure.

Donald Sutherland

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

Macaulay Culkin

I'm always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger," and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'

I haven't been like, "Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!"

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

Luiza (his oldest daughter) expressed this option [sic] in college. At the time, talked with her and school counselors. It was important to let the choice be hers and that any pressure was accompanied by homophobic colleagues. Fortunately, there was no question about their most serious option [sic]. That, remember, is personal.

I was an atheist most of my life and now I am a God-fearing Catholic, because of the miracle of life. And I'm pro-life. Amongst my peers abortion is cool, it's like, empowering, and they make jokes about it. Some of my best friends go, 'I accept that it's murder and I am pro-choice.' That's the world I live in.