American Actor Quotes

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

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

When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.

Christopher Reeve

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.

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.

They take it up the ass. [pointing at his posterior] This is only for taking a shit.

Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

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

Sometimes I think life is a terminal illness.

To Ernest Hemingway

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

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.

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

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Luther Standing Bear

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

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Is it so simple or so black and white that rich people are just kind of inherently bad? And it's obviously not the case.

Mark Feuerstein

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

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.