Famous quotes by Actors

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play"

John Cleese, Actor

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

John Cleese, Actor

"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth"

John Cleese, Actor

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

John Cleese, Actor

"I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from"

John Cleese, Actor

"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy"

John Cleese, Actor

"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires"

John Cleese, Actor

"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat"

John Cleese, Actor

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me"

John Cleese, Actor

"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing"

John Cleese, Actor

"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers, whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game"

John Cleese, Actor

"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered"

John Cleese, Actor

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard"

John Cleese, Actor

"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all"

John Cleese, Actor

"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited"

John Cleese, Actor

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with"

John Cleese, Actor

"A man will give up almost anything except his suffering"

John Cleese, Actor

"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor

"It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Their lives have been largely defined by failure, and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something, you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"In this business, you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor

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