Famous quotes by Actors

"An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice"

Richard Burton, Actor

"When I played drunks, I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk"

Richard Burton, Actor

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' work"

Richard Burton, Actor

"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles"

Richard Burton, Actor

"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges!"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens, it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it, because nobody has done that before, that's new territory"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"The third time you say a thing, it sounds like a lie"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I think early on I knew what I was going to do, and it was based a lot on familiarity, but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist, huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come"

James Lafferty, Actor

"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced"

James Lafferty, Actor

"One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well, one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid, I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult, though, because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I've made movies that we're very successful, that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful, that, you know"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"As an actor, you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that!"

James Lafferty, Actor

"The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold"

James Lafferty, Actor

"The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered"

James Lafferty, Actor

"I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity"

James Lafferty, Actor

"I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character"

James Lafferty, Actor

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