Actor Quotes

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.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

The secret of my work is a knowledge of what constitutes living in general, I think. You take the weaknesses of your own character and of other people's characters and you exploit them. You show yourself up, and you show them up.

I was never really in love with acting. I always love movies and going to the theater. But did I love being in this business? Not for five minutes. I did it because I needed a job. For the first year or two, it's like a poison that enters your body. It's like a virus, and your body has to release antidotes. But it would be very unfair to say that it's that way all the time. It's just like anything this overwhelming that you enter suddenly. It's like being a contact at West Point. You're thrown into an intense environment. From the word go, you realize it's sink or swim.

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

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

Terrence Howard

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

John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.

John Le Mesurier

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

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's unbelievable that it's not a suspension. What it did, it gave meat to everybody that's against the National Hockey League—this'll be the poster boy…[while showing clips of controversial hits by Cooke over the years] You think he'd do this stuff against [Wayne] Gretzky, if [Dave] Semenko was there? Do you think he'd do this against [Steve] Yzerman if [Bob] Probert was there? No, that's what I'm trying to tell you, he wouldn't do that stuff.

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

Hollis Frampton

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

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

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

Facebook... is the worst thing in the world. Why are we all still on it? What are we doing? We have the power to bring it down. I have one friend whose Facebook updates are exclusively complaining about Facebook. What is going on? What is this world that we're in?

Paul F. Tompkins

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.

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

When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.

Christopher Reeve

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

Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together: And what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot.

I'm going to tell you a delicious piece of gossip. Now listen very carefully because I'm only going to tell it to you once, because I promised not to repeat it.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them - like you they have not escaped.

Charles Bukowski

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