Famous quotes by Actors

"Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown"

Phil Hartman, Actor

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl, a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that"

John Lone, Actor

"In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct"

Martin Mull, Actor

"We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now"

James Gandolfini, Actor

"I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin"

James Gandolfini, Actor

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job"

Bill Murray, Actor

"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving"

John Lithgow, Actor

"It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself"

Scott Baio, Actor

"In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money"

Samuel L. Jackson, Actor

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"My interests were in fantasy more than comics, growing up"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting, what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old, don't have the energy, I can remember how life used to be"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie, but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, what performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage"

Michael Richards, Actor

"I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing"

John Lithgow, Actor

"Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?"

Joe Pesci, Actor

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