Actors' Thoughts

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
Harrison Ford

“I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.”
George Burns

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work.”
Louis Malle

“I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures.”
Benicio del Toro

“Normal is in the eye of the beholder.”
Whoopi Goldberg

“No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.”
Richard Farnsworth

“The richkids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.”
River Phoenix

“I've always felt that in America we're all equal. I don't care what you make, or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.”
Peter Jason

“If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something
that doesn't work.”
George Carlin

“I love the rain. It's my favorite weather.”
Kristen Wiig

“I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.”
Delta Burke

“The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.”
Jane Wagner

“I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.”
Cillian Murphy

“There's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.”
David O. Russell

“The hesitation can lead only to the failure.”
Youssef Chahine

“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
Tim Roth

“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.”
James Dean

“Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.”
Tom Skerritt

“You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of
pure magic.”
George Carlin

“The government has to not just address it but deal with it, identify the ghost workers, take sanctions against those who are responsible, remove those names from the list, clean up the database and stop these leakages.”
William Hanna

“I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way.”
Samuel L. Jackson

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
David Ogden Stiers

“Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“Never thought about pursuing acting as a career. Back then we were mainly performing at block parties. It was a labor of love and it was a lot of fun. The best I thought I could do was maybe make a few extra bucks on the side. All I really wanted was to earn enough to buy myself a used car so I could drive out to Orchard Beach at the weekend. ”
Luis Guzmán

“Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.”
Carrie Snow