top of page

Quotes by Actor

"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."
Quote_1.png
Leonard Nimoy
"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility."
Quote_1.png
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
"I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20."
Quote_1.png
Mel Gibson
"But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth."
Quote_1.png
Nicholas Lea
"I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious."
Quote_1.png
William Shatner
"Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play."
Quote_1.png
Corbin Bernsen
"I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."
Quote_1.png
Tom Conti
"If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
Quote_1.png
Jeremy Irons
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous."
Quote_1.png
Edward Furlong
"When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."
Quote_1.png
Klaus Kinski
"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."
Quote_1.png
Dabney Coleman
"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
Quote_1.png
Bruce Lee
"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
Quote_1.png
William H. Macy
"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made."
Quote_1.png
Robbie Coltrane
"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
Quote_1.png
Harry Anderson
"There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man."
Quote_1.png
Brendan Fraser
"Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."
Quote_1.png
Brion James
"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky."
Quote_1.png
Ted Danson
"If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing."
Quote_1.png
Joe Lando
"On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it."
Quote_1.png
Shane West
"He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength."
Quote_1.png
Woody Harrelson
"I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it."
Quote_1.png
Cary Grant
"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
Quote_1.png
Bradley Whitford
"I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."
Quote_1.png
James Caan
"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
Quote_1.png
Martin Landau
"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football."
Quote_1.png
Graham Roberts
"I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people."
Quote_1.png
Ryan Reynolds
"When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."
Quote_1.png
Edward James Olmos
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."
Quote_1.png
Ted Shackelford
"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity."
Quote_1.png
Marla Sokoloff
"At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."
Quote_1.png
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."
Quote_1.png
James Earl Jones
"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
Quote_1.png
Alan Bates
"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."
Quote_1.png
Danny DeVito
"The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life."
Quote_1.png
Patrick Warburton
"My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
Quote_1.png
Matthew Modine
"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
Quote_1.png
Robert Duvall
"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
Quote_1.png
Tom Cruise
"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."
Quote_1.png
Michael Zaslow
"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."
Quote_1.png
Desmond Llewelyn
"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people."
Quote_1.png
Paul Robeson
"But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately."
Quote_1.png
Bud Abbott
"They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent."
Quote_1.png
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
"A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."
Quote_1.png
John Malkovich
"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
Quote_1.png
Scott Caan
"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies."
Quote_1.png
Edward Furlong
"It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently."
Quote_1.png
Eli Wallach
"When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"I get beat up on every project."
Quote_1.png
Casper Van Dien
"I get beat up on every project."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
Quote_1.png
Leon Askin
"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
"At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers."
Quote_1.png
Peter Jurasik
"At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
52
bottom of page