Actor Quotes

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

In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

You almost create this infinite universe for the character that you're playing and then you're compromising it into the story that you're doing. Whatever character you're playing, you kind of explore endlessly more than what's on the page. You use that exploration to do the performance that's in the film, but hopefully, people will see all that work and preparation in those little glimpses of scenes and moments. Oh, there's something there. There's so much more happening with this character.

Bill Skarsgård

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Mark Billingham

I was never a politician. I care about my country. I put God first. For the last seven-and-a-half years, I've seen this country led by a leader that's made mistakes. I spoke my mind about it. But because I'm in the industry, you can't talk about that. The media and the liberals act the way they act: The will back up the president until the end. It's been interesting. I've had fantastic directors who have said officially to my agents and managers they will never hire me again. They will never even see me for projects. That's unfair.

Antonio Sabàto Jr.

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

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

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

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

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.

Words are like children. The more care you lavish on them, the more they demand.

A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Giving light to those who may need it.

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

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

Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies, referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.

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

[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.

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

I have found that certain agents, certain chemicals have the power to disturb the trembling immateriality of the seemingly solid body in which we walk.

You don't retire in this business. You just notice the phone has not rung for 10 years.

Warren Mitchell

I have... a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

Sterling K. Brown

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

I believe in committed cinema.
I mean, commitment in the broadest sense of the term.

Sorry, I don't understand ragas. Just show me the tune and I sing. Then sing anything you like, said Boral, and Saigal started singing something in Raag Asawari.