Actors' Thoughts

“Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.”
Kevin Kline

“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”
Gael García Bernal

“I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.”
Dakota Fanning

“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.”
Joey Bishop

“I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.”
Thomas Sangster

“As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.”
Ewen Bremner

“If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!'.”
Delta Burke

“In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.”
Casey Affleck

“Making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.”
Francis Lawrence

“All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important.”
Glenn Ficarra

“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
Marilyn Monroe

“We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it.”
Brad Bird

“It is in the interest of producers to maintain a certain moral standard since, if they don't do this, the immoral films won't sell.”
Jean Renoir

“A good idea knocks before entering your head.”
Guido Jonckers

“Joan Crawford was one of the people that made Hollywood the place that touched the imagination of the world.”
George Cukor On Joan Crawford

“Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.”
Brad Pitt

“You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. ”
Anne Fletcher

“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
George Burns

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”
George Carlin

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore

“I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.”
Josh Pais

“Do you think that not getting caught in a lie is the same as
telling the truth?”

Robert Redford

“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.”
Bradley Cooper

“My goal when I went to film school with was to graduate and have a script I could show people and a film that I could show people.”
Kevin Reynolds