Actor Quotes

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

Comedy is like a sweet. On auspicious occasions and during celebrations sweets are always offered. We offer a unique flavour.

They were like 'AA this' and I was like 'Bye bye that'

The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, Of course, just show us your scars. The man says, I have no scars. St. Peter says, What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for ?

Money has feet, money has wheels.

Eduardo De Filippo

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

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?

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

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.

Scientists never make science: they simply find it. Every scientific thought they think has been thought for them in the book of nature and they simply rethink it.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

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.

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)

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.

Just how many did we kill? I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this or I might say 'my God, what have we done?'

On the bombing of Hiroshima

Robert Lewis (director)

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine, people I have never discussed vegetarianism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

Sometimes I think life is a terminal illness.

To Ernest Hemingway

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

[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.

As an actor... we all have our own methods and approaches to creating a character, whether thats from the inside going in or vice versa. I spoke, mainly, to the executive producer Bill Dozier. We got along very well and we really shared the same ideas about the show, what it could and should be. We knew to play it on several levels - something that could be lasting for the children but also with funny, social satire for the adults.

Amo, amas,
I love a lass,
As a cedar tall and slender;
Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case,
And she's of the feminine gender!

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

If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.