Actors' Thoughts

“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”
Anthony Minghella

“There are a lot of Latinos actors who are coming up now and have had opportunities that 10 or 20 years ago simply did not exist.”
Adrian Martinez

“I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.”
Matthew Vaughn

“I have good looking kids; thank god my wife cheats on me.”
Rodney Dangerfield

“For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.”
Joaquin Phoenix

“I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.”
Baz Luhrmann

“I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.”
Christian Bale

“People who work in diamonds and in oil wreck a lot of the Earth and a lot of the people on it.”
Stephen McHattie

“Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.”
Alec Baldwin

“A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a
whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.”
John Barrymore

“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny'.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.”
John Travolta

“In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.”
Josh Radnor

“It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.”
Lasse Hallström

“Maybe show business is getting to be a lost art. It used to be if a kid was hit at the theater when they had 'amateur night', a scout would see hima nd get him a break in burlesque, or in a medicine show, or the circus. Then if they had what it took he'd latch on in vaudeville. Finally maybe he'd be ready for Broadway in a musical for Ziegfeld...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Jolson

“I try to get the best performance an actor can give.”
Taylor Hackford

“I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh

“I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.”
George Burns

“The trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.”
Garson Kanin

“It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.”
William Castle

“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”
Patrick Swayze

“I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.”
Brad Garrett

“In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.”
Heath Ledger

“You and the location must connect.”
Youssef Chahine

“I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.”
Burt Lancaster