Famous quotes by Actors

"When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that"

Frank Morgan, Actor

"A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done"

Ben Stein, Actor

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I hate violence, yes, I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do', but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"You can do what you think you can do, and you cannot do what you think you cannot"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with, perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember"

Ben Stein, Actor

"For me, the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood, who in their 70s or 80s can still act"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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