Famous quotes by Actors

"The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"All my life I've been looking for diversity"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"There's no sex in Middle Earth"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I was brought up in industrial South Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend, the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy'"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle!"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris", like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get, at times, messages across, or bring issues to the table, or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

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