American Actor Quotes

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

Northern Calloway

The Bow'ry, The Bow'ry. They say such things, and they do strange things on the Bow'ry.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not a voice-over actor, I do Sebastian because Sebastian is a part of me, but I can't sit there and make up a voice for you.

Samuel E. Wright

And so it has come to this: I, uh... am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it. I want to thank the gentlemen who've shared this stage with me for thirty years, Mr. Ed McMahon... Mr. Doc Severinsen... and... you people watching, I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you—and I hope when I find something that I want to do, and I think you would like, and come back, that you'll be as gracious in inviting me into your home as you have been. I bid you a very heartfelt good night.

The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it alot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you S. O What?, and I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.

Brandon DiCamillo

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

William McNamara

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.

Look at that! Look how she moves! That's just like jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor or something, huh? I tell you it's a whole different sex.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

I believe there's an intrinsic irreverence in the American psyche, and when something comes along that offers even an echo of that irreverence, people respond to it.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

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

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

Peter Nelson (actor)

Everything's so repressive now – it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

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.

The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.

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.

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

Leonardo DiCaprio