Actors' Thoughts

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the
consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
Stanley Kubrick

“When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. ”
Bradley Whitford

“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.”
Sam Shepard

“I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.”
Michael Cristofer

“After a day's work, we would see villagers sitting outside their front doors, wishing us 'good evening' and asking how the filming was going ... (their attitude) was a lesson in generosity.”
Blanca Portillo

“I never really thought about my race until I came into this industry... I was told that I should do martial arts because I was Asian. Or that I should go out for the Samurai role.”
Hana Mae Lee

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.”
Man Ray

“I guess I've still got some of that old live-it-up left in me. I'm buying a Rolls Royce convertible. Going the whole route, you might say.”
Tony Curtis

“The big breakthrough for me was accepting my family, was accepting 'this is who I am, these are my people, this is where I'm from.”
P.J. Hogan

“Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.”
John Lithgow

“In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. ”
Shelley Lee Long

“Negative information is not the same as NO information.”

“Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.”
Cheech Marin

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”

“I'm impossible to direct.”
Tony Shalhoub

“When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.”
Bo Derek

“For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle,
bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount
of time standing around in line in front of windows, just
waiting.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“By the time I'd worked for three lawyers, I'd been chased around desks so often I figured I had what it takes for more important endeavors like show business.”
Mamie van Doren

“The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.”
Rip Torn

“One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient.”
Laurie Metcalf

“Fish f**k in it.”

W.C. Fields

“Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.”
Rebecca Romijn

“International stars are fantastic. They're the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.”
Rob Marshall

“I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”
Sir Christopher Lee

“The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.”
George Sewell