Famous quotes by Actors

"In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality"

Richard Gere, Actor

"In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters"

Richard Gere, Actor

"I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable"

Richard Gere, Actor

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Everyone responds to kindness"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know"

Richard Gere, Actor

"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"To be a good actor, you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better"

Edward Norton, Actor

"People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies"

Edward Norton, Actor

"It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass"

Edward Norton, Actor

"All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard"

Edward Norton, Actor

"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere"

Christopher Parker, Actor

"She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along"

Matthew McConaughey, Actor

"You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"There's no good guys and bad guys"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses"

Christopher Parker, Actor

"I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English"

Christopher Parker, Actor

"I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions"

Christopher Parker, Actor

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