Actors' Thoughts

“If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.”
Jennifer Grey

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
Sophia Loren

“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
Joe Mantegna

“I continue to hold the view that I had when I was a student, the choice I made as an independentfilmmaker to find money internationally and continue to make my own films - the films of my selection, my choosing - even if it takes me longer. ”
Haile Gerima

“When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.”
Glenn Ficarra

“It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.”
Emily Mortimer

“Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“I always listen to a great amount of classical. I had stopped for a while, as I studied it so much, most of it is in my head. ”
David Silverman

“How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?”
Lana Turner

“I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.”
Rebecca Romijn

“Horror and sex go hand in hand. I think that the two are life and death.”
Stuart Gordon

“I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TVshow or a movie.”
Jack Black

“It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.”
Joan Rivers

“Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.”
Lesley Manville

“The Method: that's all it is, a technique to know what you're talking about and mean what you say.”
Austin Pendleton

“I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.”
Peter O'Toole

“I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.”
John C. Reilly

“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”
Woody Allen

“I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.”
Thomas Haden Church

“I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.”
Ty Olsson

“I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive.”
Jon Favreau

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
John Lasseter

“It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.”
Sienna Miller

“The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.”
Stephen Fry

“Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do 'practice'?”
Jerry Seinfeld