Actor Quotes

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 ?

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

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

If you want to scare your boyfriend next Halloween, come dressed as what he fears most. Commitment.

Peter Nelson (actor)

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

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.

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.

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

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.

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

One of my first tasks is to instill discipline into the organisation. We do not need slogan shouting. Too many 'leaders' do nothing but sit on podiums or get themselves photographed with other leaders. This must stop. The Youth Congress leaders must go back to the roots and serve the people. I want to bring back value-based politics to the youth wing.

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

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

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

Hollis Frampton

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)

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

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

John Le Mesurier

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.