Actors' Thoughts

“All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband.”
Carrie Fisher

“I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.”
Glenn Ford

“Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.”
Tom Everett Scott

“It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.”
Kenneth Williams On Noel Pierce Coward

“Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing.”
Ivana Miličević

“If you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.”
Nigel Cole

“I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.”
Giovanni Ribisi

“I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.”
Sam Shepard

“I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That's all I need to know.”
Seth Rogen

“Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.”
Michael Landon

“I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.”
Joel Kinnaman

“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

“I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.”
Thomas Haden Church

“He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.”
Woody Allen

“As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.”
Warwick Davis

“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”
Woody Allen

“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.”
Alan Ladd

“I'd like to die like my father died... My father died fucking. My father was 57 when he died. The woman was 18. My father came and went at the same time.”
Richard Pryor

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell..”
Joan Crawford

“I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.”
Sir John Hurt

“The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclearattack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.”
Billy Connolly

“The camera looks into your soul.”
Joe Pantoliano

“For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.”
Werner Herzog

“Unpleasant man. No one has yet worked out what really makes him tick. But he sings well.”
Robert Aldrich On Frank Sinatra

“Directing is only writing with a camera.”
Richard Brooks