Actor Quotations | Page 4

I worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two months.

I was in my mid-20s when I did A Room With A View, and now I'm 41. I can't think of anything since that has been that widely viewed.

I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities.

I think that one of benefits of being on a critically acclaimed show is that people have an understanding that maybe you can act.

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

We never thought the show would last this long.

I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

Most of my mail comes from young people.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?

That's what it's going to take to win these last four games. Not an individual effort by any one person-a collective group going out and surviving.

We're all kind of last-chance kids. We've all been in other bands before. This is kinda the last hurrah. That dream we all had for so long.

That was a pretty fabulous set... it does transport you. I remember that it didn't feel like a set, I really felt like I was in outer space.

There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they're well regarded.

To work with a guy like Wyler early in your career was just an incredible thing, because he gave me an amazing amount of confidence.

Ya, we had a number one record, ya we, there's a lot of history there, we uh, we discovered the Jackson Five, opening for us one place.

We're like a family. The crew loves working on the show although we work long hours and very hard. Nobody on the show is difficult.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart.

You have to be passionate about it. You have to be able to take rejection and disappointment at first and not let your confidence be undermined.

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

When we first put the costume on, you could see the human shape underneath, so the padding gave Chewie his rounded shape, really.

Usually I identify with the female characters - all of them, actually... their strengths, their weaknesses, their fears, their passions.

Yes, but the majority of his actors, those from the generation of Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung - they all came from the televisions.

Yes, I did quite a bit of boat driving.

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

At the beginning, it was tough for me to actually become an actor. I was so thrilled that I was able to earn my living doing something I truly loved.

Conservatives always strive to achieve lower taxes where possible but making them compatible to providing the best in public services.

Waterfront development should continue with projects that will benefit the entire city, but we shouldn't be shortsighted about it.

Even if you play a villain, you do an injustice to him if he's just, like, programmed to do those things. It's always more complex.

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

Is there someone I look up to? Uh, yeah. Um. I look up to John Ritter, just because, I guess, he's a physical comedian. Um, and I enjoy that.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

Yes, there are bodily function issues that are a central premise of this movie and I think they're handled with amazing delicacy of humor.

You are with a new set of people, you are in a new location, there is always something new about it. I still enjoy that. It's still good fun.

The programme's evolving constantly, and it may well go back into more psychological horror - these things tend to go in cycles in long-running shows.

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.

We were the first people in popular television to make the woman an equal partner with the man. You won't believe that, but I promise you it's true.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.

I've tried to steer away from them as much as I can and do things that are a little bit outrageous, edgier, something that hasn't been done.

The writers have built up the Morse and Lewis characters, and their relationship. You're fascinated how these two men get to the result they get to.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

What being a crew and what this film did was give people a sense of future. It gave them a goal to work towards, which was really special.

Very often, what I find newest is something very old. It's just a little jingle, a little rhythm, a little turn, a little trope.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong.

British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language.

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

After a while you 'd start to see who was good at that job and they treated it like it was the most important thing to them in the world.

People feel they know me because of my Little Britain characters - But I'm not a Little Britain character. No one knows what I'm really like.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

But nobody can write poetry all the time.

But on the other hand, pot is the best recreational substance for teenagers, athletes, people who have naturally high adrenaline.

Family members can help support each other to make significant improvements in their exercise and eating habits. It begins with basic awareness.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I've always managed to hustle; since the show ended, I did probably ten movies. I always feel like I can stay busy and do stuff.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

That's why Ged is perfect for an actor because he's the hero, but not a classic hero in the sense that he does good all the time.

A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and I don't think there is anything to be offended at.

And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It's great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them.

They're still keeping up the wonderfully inventive storylines, but for instance that movie, SEVEN, it's fairly graphic, but still very good.

People who have read the books get miserable because of all the bits that have been cut out. So I just read the script. That's the best way.

Probably the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a child it was the first time I really remembering seeing the power of and desire for democracy.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Everything is just falling into place for me right now. I just turned 30, which I thought I was going to be bummed about, but I'm not.

Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly.

There's one right now that's sort of a Canadian independent film that Don Davis and I are working to put together, and that's kind of a labor of love.

There's only one day to shoot one scene, you don't get a second chance. You've got to say, This is what I feel. Could I try this?

I've almost never watched The X Files through. I was never a fan, I don't watch much television anyway so it's nothing personal.

You offer things up, I suppose, and he probably gently maybe changes it a little bit one way or another, but you don't feel directive as it were.

You read a script and its based on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and it goes right in the bin.

You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.

I've goten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

I'm not always doing this work, but whatever I'm doing when I'm not doing this work seems to be as much a part of this as anything else.

I'm not a big fan of television; I've had a hard time over the years because I think the quality of the writing sort of starts to deteriorate.

I'm very pleased with myself. I did The Collector immediately after Billy Budd, because I thought, Well, I'll let everybody know: This is my range.

I never pushed to be on television again.

If somebody offered me the money I would probably make one but would I actually seek it out? I don't know. I don't really live my life like that.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

I'm very, very pleased. Our goal today was to come in here and do the best we could, and we did that.

I had my first play produced when I was 14; it was my way of competing in the neighborhood I grew up in, a sort of tough neighborhood.