American Actor Quotes

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.

The energy contained in the apple can destroy the world. And yet we cannot create one small apple.

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

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)

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.

Man is innately a creature of love … love is the most powerful force in the universe, and eventually—it's a very slow process—it will conquer. I think there will come a time, and this is down the road a great many years, when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say meat-eaters! in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

My mantra is stay perpendicular. Horizontal is not as good. Half the people that came along and up with with me are either gone to another dimension or don't remember what they had for lunch. I'm fortunate. I don't know why. I just want to have a good time.

As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.

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.

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

I'm a whore. All actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

Gilbert Gottfried

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Edward Van Sloan

If I wanted to go crazy, I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-A-Roni aside.

Michael O'Donoghue

I would not want to become an adult in every sense of the word. Who the hell does?

Leonardo DiCaprio

Help! I'm David of Sesame Street, and they're trying to kill me!

Northern Calloway

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.

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.