Famous quotes by Actors

"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... He seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen!"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"Nobody I represent is pretending to be the Pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"I remember back when I was a kid, there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster, I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I never make conscious decisions"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl, and it's not you going through it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away"

Edward Norton, Actor

"For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it, you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions"

Edward Norton, Actor

"It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves"

Edward Norton, Actor

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