Actors' Thoughts

“My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.”
Josh Radnor

“The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount,
As streams meander level with their fount.”

Robert Montgomery

“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life.”
Jackie Gleason

“Death is not the worst. There are things more horrible than death...”
Werner Herzog

“I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.”
Alan Ladd

“I think anybody can be a good actor.”
Jamie Kennedy

“I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.”
Françoise Hardy

“I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.”
William Hurt

“Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.”
Sir John Hurt

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Jack Lemmon

“There's three ways to do things, the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it.”
Robert De Niro

“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
Tom Shadyac

“I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.”
Bette Davis

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Federico Fellini

“I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.”
Geraldine Chaplin

“Now that it’s twenty-seven years after Color Purple, I’m thinking for me to still be remembered as Shug after all these years is a blessing.”
Margaret Avery

“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
W.C. Fields

“I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.”
Nancy Meyers

“There were times when I wouldn’t know how to make ends meet and I needed God to hold on to. That was the time I started getting back in church and I wanted my daughter to have a strong foundation in church. It would have been easier to stay with my daughters father or have some man take care of me but God still made a way for me.”
Margaret Avery

“I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.”
Anthony Edwards

“I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.”
Wesley Snipes

“If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.”
Fred Ward

“I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.”
Famke Janssen

“I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.”
Walter Salles

“When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do.”
Kim Coates