Actors' Thoughts

“Films are made in fear and worry and panic. There is no happiness in this business.”
Sir Carol Reed

“The reality of the job is that a large part of directing is about knowing what to change and making it great!”
Mikael Salomon

“The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.”
Maurice Chevalier

“You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.”
Sam Rockwell

“Method acting? Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.”
John Barrymore

“The unattainable is always that I want to attain.”
Karan Johar

“Most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.”
Holland Taylor

My marriage license reads, "To whom it may concern".
Mickey Rooney

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
Harry Morris Warner

“Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself.”
Joe Pesci On Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese

“Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing.”
Steve Carrell

“The big studio films of today are very glamorous but they seem so artificial; they have no smell.”
Jiang Wen

“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”
John Leguizamo

“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
David Spade

“If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.”
Rachel Ticotin

“I think Spencer always thought that acting was a rather silly way for a man to make a living.”
Katharine Hepburn On Spencer Tracy

“I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.”
Shekhar Kapur

“I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'”
Edgar Wright

“In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.”
Lukas Haas

“Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.”
Woody Allen

“I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.”
Melanie Griffith

“It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.”
William H. Macy

“Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Any of my indiscretions were with people, not actresses.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“I improve on misquotation.”
Cary Grant