Actor Quotations | Page 3

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

What other people think about me is not my business.

The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

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

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around.

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

Oh yeah. I'm always dancing on bars. I'm a bloke that loves a drink, and when you're just free and on the loose like we are on films - it happens.

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

No, no, I go where the work is, wherever it is. I'll go, I mean, if I select it, but I don't try and ration it out or balance it at all.

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

My first day was on the Champs-Elysees roundabout, which is about five lanes. That was my first day behind the wheel of a French car.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

Obviously I think Vancouver definitely enjoyed our time there, a lot of money was brought into the city, and it was just exciting.

Right now I'm looking for the next thing, I'm taking my time finding something that really fits for me, I want to try something different from X-Men.

My first one was called How Men Have Babies which is the pregnant father's survival guide and this will be about the first time your kid does things.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

I have been very impressed to see how Jennifer has stepped into this role and taken it to another level and I love working with her.

I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.

I didn't want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie. I wanted to make an adult movie.

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

Meanwhile, I had planned to go west and get a teaching job, or do that along with some work in Hollywood, such as television or film.

So I think at the start of the 3rd year, that's when the character became sort of more like myself than it was about the original interpretation.

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.

I was like: I'm going to ask Julia Roberts out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

I'd been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people.

I'd done a few jobs, but not much, and I'd come from a family that exercises caution when it comes to anything to do with job security.

If I wasn't a musician I could find something else... maybe an artist or a painter because I still do all that. Or possibly a writer.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

I, and I'm sure many celebrities, have a certain amount of guilt over letters that didn't get answered or got answered after long delays.

But it turned out that Vader was an icon who the kids thought was wonderful, so the campaign became much more successful because of Star Wars.

But after having done American Psycho and Shaft, I found it a breath of fresh air to play somebody who's completely human in terms of his emotions.

I feel very proud to have created a character that is so respected. On the other hand, as an actor, I have more freedom now to do other things.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most.

Hero" is really special because there is no formula. Usually the good guy has a problem. This film doesn't have a real bad guy in it.

I have so much respect for him. He really just does what his heart is telling him to do. He was amazing to work with and really just a brilliant guy.

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

He just lets you go, really. When we were kind of supposed to rehearse, I don't remember rehearsing at all. We just sort of gossiped and chatted.

I always go by instinct. I have been a freelance my whole career, and I always go by my instincts, and thus remain responsible for my own decisions.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

I find it exhilarating to pick up the script on my front porch and read it for the first time and see what the story is all about.

He'd just run, run all the time, and he walks about, doesn't he, he never stops. I think that they put an odometer on him one day and he walked miles.

Just recently up in Utah, some guy got 55 years for selling an ounce of pot to an undercover agent.

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

My son will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

I went over there to get a classical training and discovered that Canadians, because they are British subjects, are able to work without a permit.

My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

Physically, I couldn't fold myself into a gray, invisible bank clerk. I just thought, It's the most amazing part. It's a pity that I'm wrong for it.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

I think I was able to ride on a good wave of not seeming too desperate. There's a confidence in there that's actually rare for me.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

I'm impressed with the likes of Jet Li and Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee was a big hero of mine for many years. They're great influences.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

I was lucky to have had a good costume.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I think theatre in L.A. is really risk.

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

I think in every generation there's a certain amount of, not awe exactly, but that sort of awareness of other people's achievements.

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

I was the original guy that started that group, Bobby Taylor was, I started off with a group called The Shades we were in Calgary.

I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn't hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that's why, frankly, I never did it again.

I was very intrigued and amused by the notion of somebody who can get banned for ten years, for playing bowls in a fashion that annoys people.

I think I'd certainly be lying to say I would have wanted to play the character in somebody else's interpretation for 8 years that way.