Actors' Thoughts

“Drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.”
Ethan Suplee

“Life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Robert Redford

“Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. ”
Mel Brooks

“Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones.”
Bob Hoskins

“I often see myself in my private life as being a pinched and confined person. When I get on the stage I can open up.”
Michael Jeter

“I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!”
Joan Winmill Brown

“In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterward that causes the problems.”
Shelley Winters

“In theater when you do a comedy, you rehearse for a few weeks and you begin to feel the rhythm. In film it's an arbitrary rhythm usually that has to look like a truthful one to work.”
Austin Pendleton

“Broadway has been very good to me. But I've been very good to Broadway, too.”
Ethel Merman

“I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting.”
Mike Newell

“I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.”
Dakota Fanning

“But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.”
Norman Jewison

“The movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together.”
Wolfgang Petersen

“If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.”
Joshua Carter Jackson

“I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid.”
Takashi Miike

“Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.”
Liv Tyler

“That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.”
Julie Kavner

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

“I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.”
Neil Jordan

“I'm aware of what's missing from my life.”
Ang Lee

“I've always found poverty a source of strength.”
Stephen Frears

“Cinema is the director's medium. It is written even less than it is acted, but it is primarily the director's medium.”
Charlton Heston

“Enjoy every moment.”
Milo Ventimiglia

“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.”
Maggie Smith

“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
Tim Roth