top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Actor
"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
129
"I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."
126
"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
117
"I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that."
116
"I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously."
116
"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else."
115
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
115
"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem."
114
"Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"
111
"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."
110
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
110
"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."
107
"The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny."
107
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
107
"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
105
"Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light."
103
"I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'"
102
"Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt."
101
"I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all."
100
"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."
100
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
99
"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God."
99
bottom of page