Famous quotes by Actors

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few!"

Will Rogers, Actor

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere, but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there"

Will Rogers, Actor

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth"

Will Rogers, Actor

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods, while the policeman searches you"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"I have four children, which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes, and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best,. They are merely the people who got there first"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"At the age of four, with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all generals. Only some of us never grow out of it"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"A diplomat these days, in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves"

John Wayne, Actor

"Get off your butt and join the Marines!"

John Wayne, Actor

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with"

Denzel Washington, Actor

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