Actor Quotations

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now.

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

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.