Famous quotes by Actors

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt"

George Sewell, Actor

"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood because it was full of gladness and good humanity"

Roberto Benigni, Actor

"Raising kids is part joy, and part guerilla warfare"

Ed Asner, Actor

"I'm sorry, I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me"

Vincent Gallo, Actor

"Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine"

Christopher Plummer, Actor

"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue"

Martin Short, Actor

"I had a Southern accent, but I had broken it so hard"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"

Nathan Lane, Actor

"When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common, and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part"

David Carradine, Actor

"I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with"

David Carradine, Actor

"In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way"

David Carradine, Actor

"Well, I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film"

David Carradine, Actor

"I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk"

David Carradine, Actor

"'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great"

David Carradine, Actor

"I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back"

David Carradine, Actor

"There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way"

David Carradine, Actor

"My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision, but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk"

David Carradine, Actor

"Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all!"

David Carradine, Actor

"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right"

David Carradine, Actor

"Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then, of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again, but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it"

David Carradine, Actor

"Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword!"

David Carradine, Actor

"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought, well, I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift"

David Carradine, Actor

"I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean, you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster"

David Carradine, Actor

"Things ain't what they used to be and never were"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects"

Will Rogers, Actor

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