American Actor Quotes

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

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

I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, "I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be." I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.

We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

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

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.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,
Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

John Howard Payne

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

Northern Calloway

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

Edward Van Sloan

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

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

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)

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

Peter Nelson (actor)

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

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

I think it tells the truth and it cuts to the heart of so many profound aspects of human experience unlike many musicals, which cover more frivolous topics.

Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

Ernest Borgnine

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

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

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

Leonardo DiCaprio

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.