Actor Quotes

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Mike: I'm Mike Chapman from homestarrunner. com! People are all the time asking me "Mike, how do you do those stupid voices for your dumb animal characters?" and I say "I'm Mike! Matt does the voices!" Let's go!

The Brothers Chaps

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

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

The marvellous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

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

Neil Patrick Harris

I was so pleased to be offered Doctor Who. To me kids are the greatest audience - and the greatest critics - in the world.

William Hartnell

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

John Le Mesurier

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.

Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

The film resonated deeply with 13-year-old boys. It seemed to give expression to all their insecurities and fears. It is about a teenage boy who's lost his dad, his mom and his older brother, and I think the whole story is his coping with this great loss by fantasizing about death and this ominous figure who strides through your life quite unpredictably and more than decimates it. It dealt in a very entertaining way with a subject that haunts all of us at the back of our minds.

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

Terrence Howard

Oooh noo, please, it's wicked to mock the afflicted! Well it might be one of your own! Don't laugh at her, she might want paying - I told her this was an audition! She's known to me as Madam Vera Roper, but she's known to everyone else as The English Open!

This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.

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.

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.

Money has feet, money has wheels.

Eduardo De Filippo

I feel passionate about things. And I feel things deeply, and that's always the way I've been taught, right from the beginning, that the deeper you feel something the better the acting..... and then it's also the person you're playing. If you're playing someone who's upset or yelling, that's what you gotta do. That's the job.

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

John Philip Kemble

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.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry. Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions only to die a prolonged and painful death.

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.

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

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.