Actors' Thoughts

“Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constantvigilance. There is no downtime.”
Jennifer Lee

“You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.”
Bai Ling

“I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.”
Ava DuVernay

“There was only one boss I believed inand that was me.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.”
Humphrey Bogart

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was “the man goes on top and the woman underneath”. For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster

“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
Charlton Hesto

“I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.”
Héctor Elizondo

“When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. ”
Jeffrey Tambor

“Audiences that go to my movies don't want a message. They don't want my soul exposed or my life view. They just want to laugh.”
Dennis Dugan

“I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.”
Paul Giamatti

“I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.”
Aaron Douglas Trimble

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

“I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.”
Jerry Orbach

“I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.”
Dennis Farina

“If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.”
Vincente Minnelli

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”
Robert De Niro

“Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.”
Richard Jenkins

“I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.”
Sienna Miller

“I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.”
Tom Hardy

“The true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.”
Stephen Frears

“I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.”
Frank Whaley

“Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. ”
Ralph Macchio On Alfred Hitchcock

“We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?”
Tony Randall