Famous quotes by Actors

"Well, first of all, it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs, all the failures, that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion"

Robert Redford, Actor

"To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, it doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better"

Robert Redford, Actor

"What I would do is, when I was younger, I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life, and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story"

Robert Redford, Actor

"We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end"

Robert Redford, Actor

"It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Lastly, get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book"

Robert Redford, Actor

"I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that"

Robert Redford, Actor

"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery, and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life"

Robert Redford, Actor

"The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races!"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

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