Famous quotes by Actors

"Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional"

Sean Bean, Actor

"There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real?"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking"

Robert Stack, Actor

"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer, but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great"

Matthew Perry, Actor

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care'"

James Caan, Actor

"You see, I was the son of a Baptist minister"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me"

David Prowse, Actor

"Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled, and do some fundraising for that, and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign, but it couldn't be worked out"

David Prowse, Actor

"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all"

Joe Lando, Actor

"I have a good ear for languages"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality"

Derek Luke, Actor

"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it"

Derek Luke, Actor

"It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first, but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines, and it felt right"

Derek Luke, Actor

"Yes, I've just bought a new horse named Jedi"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I had a very modest upbringing"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

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