Famous quotes by Actors

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing"

Ralph Richardson, Actor

"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries"

Lukas Haas, Actor

"Life is supposed to get tough"

Kelsey Grammer, Actor

"I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol"

Steven Seagal, Actor

"My father died prematurely at the age of 52, when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama"

Richard E. Grant, Actor

"We are treated with such generosity of spirit"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you"

Joshua Jackson, Actor

"I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life"

John Forsythe, Actor

"Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options"

Jeremy Jackson, Actor

"A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned"

Jason Biggs, Actor

"I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley"

Harry Melling, Actor

"I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young"

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Actor

"There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion"

Bill Pullman, Actor

"My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime"

Danny Aiello, Actor

"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I am a mixture of idealist and realist"

Roger Moore, Actor

"Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television"

Tony Danza, Actor

"Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else"

Josh Hartnett, Actor

"You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many"

Jeffrey Hunter, Actor

"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx, and one lived in Manhattan, and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker"

Jason Alexander, Actor

"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care"

William H. Macy, Actor

"I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care"

Peter Krause, Actor

"The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers"

William Devane, Actor

"Life is about family and technology"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act"

Cuba Gooding, Jr., Actor

"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

Adam Pascal, Actor

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