20th-century Actor Quotes

There is no difference in preparing for Robbie Rotten [from the children's television series LazyTown] or any classical serious role... Every part you prepare for you have to be honest and truthful and wholly believe that the character exists – otherwise no one will accept your acting. Kids are a demanding audience and they KNOW when something is untruthful.

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

You know, if this is Venus, or some other strange planet, we're liable to run into some high-domed characters with green blood in their veins who'll blast at us with their atomic death rayguns, and there we'll be with these — these poor old-fashioned shootin' irons.

Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I've ever made.

Forest Whitaker

I've been a vegetarian for 14 years now, and a lot of the time I avoid going to restaurants. I eat at home. … I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that…. I don't judge people who eat meat—that's not for me to say—but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

Women and science are incompatible. No true scientist can have anything to do with a woman.

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

This is a business that's heavily promulgated by people who have a politically liberal bent. I don't begrudge them that. I'm a libertarian; frankly, I think my liberalness goes far beyond theirs in a lot of ways. But yeah, we think differently, and maybe that's cut me out of some things. I don't care. People know I get along great with all kinds of directors, all kinds of actors. And I tell you, you hire me, I will show up, 24/7, and I will give you 100%. I will help you fix whatever problems come up. You hire me, I'm your boy. It's just, it's all about the work. And when that's done, I am done.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in. The entertainment industry in the last 10 years has been so fragmented, from scripted programming to reality. There's work not just on TV and in film, but you know, on your cell phone, on the Internet. There's so many [venues] now, and each of them looking for quality content, that, you know, I'm just going with the flow. And I'm having fun with every wave.

Ever since we were out of the womb, we've been competing. That's just how brothers are.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

Mr. Trump genuinely has nothing to lose. He doesn't need the money, he doesn't need the power and he certainly doesn't need the fame. It seems that Donald Trump genuinely thinks the country is going to hell and simply doesn't want to wait on the sidelines as it happens. Can he win? Who knows. One thing's for sure; if Barack Obama makes this into another election that places personality over substance, celebrity over accomplishments, I can see only one outcome... Mr. President, you're fired.

Well part of the reason I have that many credits is I don't get in my director's face too much. I just do what I'm told. But I've also been burned by first time directors. Anthony and I talked about it and, you know, he thought he was picking me and I thought I was picking him and we hit it off. He's very visual which is exactly what you want for this.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science — to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

William McNamara

Be a dancer—any kind of dancer you wanta be—but dance it! Be a singer—sing any song you wanta sing, but sing! And you've got enough trouble to take you to the graveyard! But think of all that life you had before they buried you.

Lonne Elder III

Come on feet
cruise for me
trouble aint no place to be
come on feet
do your thing
come on legs
come on run.

Melvin Van Peebles

I think I could have been appointed as the aide-de camp in the White House, it wouldn't make any difference — it's Bambi that's so dear to people. But I love it now — when people realize, 'This old jerk, he's still alive and was Bambi.' And I wouldn't take anything for it, not a darn thing for it.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

[The universe] is all random, radiating aimlessly out of nothing and eventually vanishing forever. The universe, all space, all time, it's just a temporary convulsion. And I get paid to prove it.

I wouldn't be seen dead with a woman old enough to be my wife.