American Actor Quotes

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

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

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.

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.

I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

I've just spent an hour talking to Tallulah [Bankhead] for a few minutes.

In a world where there is enlightenment, intelligence, kindness, awareness of others' needs and others' well-being, there is no terrorism. And in a world of viciousness and narrow-mindedness and only one way, there will be terrorism. Our challenge, in our country, is to find a way to disagree amongst ourselves without being so awful about it.

I'm promised for this world just so long, and when I go that will be the end of it.... Sometime, I suppose, I'll make a mistake, a fatal mistake. and it will be all over.

Reply when asked if he was afraid of getting killed

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

Viggo Mortensen

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

Michael O'Donoghue

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

People really seem to have enjoyed The Tick. I think because it's odd and quirky and not mainstream, that people that are fans of The Tick love to talk about it, bring it up, and I certainly appreciate that. I felt like it was something special when we made it, and it was very disappointing when our network was not going to support it. I guess about eight years later, we proved the network wrong. Once again, the guys in suits made a big, big mistake, and they're all big jerks.

Patrick Warburton

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

Sanford Meisner

I got my mojo working But it just don't work on you.

A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Giving light to those who may need it.

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.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

James Earl Jones

You're a real blue flame special, aren't you son? Young, dumb and full of come, I know. What I don't know is how you got assigned here. Guess we must have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?

John C. McGinley

Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as "merely players."

I have found that certain agents, certain chemicals have the power to disturb the trembling immateriality of the seemingly solid body in which we walk.

It was not Martin Luther King who emancipated the modern Negro, but Stepin Fetchit.... It was Step, who elevated the Negro to the dignity of a Hollywood star. I made the Negro a first-class citizen all over the world.

I'm going to tell you a delicious piece of gossip. Now listen very carefully because I'm only going to tell it to you once, because I promised not to repeat it.

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

Northern Calloway

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.