Famous quotes by Actors

"My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true"

John Astin, Actor

"And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"If you have an opportunity to use your voice, you should use it"

Samuel L. Jackson, Actor

"I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now"

Harry Hamlin, Actor

"I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was"

David Thewlis, Actor

"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is, after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were"

James Franco, Actor

"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it because I grew up without it"

David Duchovny, Actor

"In Hitchcock's eyes, the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with"

Bruce Dern, Actor

"The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death"

Howard Keel, Actor

"You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head"

Ray Walston, Actor

"I don't see all the movies that come out"

Ray Walston, Actor

"Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts"

Jake Gyllenhaal, Actor

"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk"

Patrick Murray, Actor

"Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role"

Lee Majors, Actor

"I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all"

Steve Burton, Actor

"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something"

Karl Urban, Actor

"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"Skiing is better than sex, actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra"

Howard Keel, Actor

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