Famous quotes by Actors

"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose!"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them"

Orson Welles, Actor

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Fake is as old as the Eden tree"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Create your own visual style... Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others"

Orson Welles, Actor

"At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch?"

Orson Welles, Actor

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline, I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"What other people think about me is not my business"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

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