Actor Quotes

Charlie Chaplin

Eduardo De Filippo

Marlon Brando

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Johnny Depp

Leonardo DiCaprio

Brad Pitt

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

Charlie Chaplin

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.

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.

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

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

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

Jean-Claude Killy

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

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.

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.

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.

I learnt to be in the light. The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you – they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

Gérard Depardieu

She was not an easy woman to categorize or to explain. If I've ever known anyone in my life, man or woman, who was unique, it was she. There was nobody like her before or since. Never will be. In every way. In talent, in looks, in character, in temperament. Everything. There sure wasn't anybody who didn't fall under her spell.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?

John Philip Kemble

My experience with first-time directors is that they're all extremely prepared, because I guess they're worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.

Matthew Broderick

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

Spike's was a very simple philosophy when we met him. I think that now he is forming one, and I think that the best thing that he has come up with so far is that a lot of being human is about degradation and pain and humiliation. I think he's starting to understand that for the first time. I think he got away from that by becoming a vampire and that's why he was so keen to stop being human, but he's getting back to being human now.

Anyone can do well … It's all out there waiting for you to take. But first you must reach out and get it. You must work for your riches. You cannot expect it to fall into your lap.

As she lay, on that day,
In the bay of Biscay, O!

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

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.

Money has feet, money has wheels.

Eduardo De Filippo

During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.

There's no particular complex that I have about acting in a Hollywood movie if offered. Some would say there's a lot here in our industry for us to go there and suck up to them. I don't consider it sucking up. If I am offered a blink and you miss appearance in a Hollywood film starring Brando, De Niro, Pacino or Nicholson, where I just have to go and hand a suitcase to them, I would simply do it out of sheer veneration for these great and renowned artists. And yes, despite all my success and fame in our industry and nation. There's no vanity I harbour in my mind in order to do that.

Amitabh Bachchan

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Neil Patrick Harris

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

Terrence Howard