Actor Quotes

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.

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.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

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.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

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

Adam and I had a special friendship for more than 50 years. We shared some of the most fun times of our lives together; our families have deep love and respect for each other. This is a terribly unexpected loss of my lifelong friend, I will forever miss him. There are several fine actors who have portrayed Batman in films, in my eyes there was only one real Batman and that is and always will be Adam West; He was truly the Bright Knight.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Heywood Hale Broun

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.

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

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

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog—or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

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.

Next to a small war, there is nothing quite like a general election to stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood.

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

Warren Mitchell

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?

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.