Actors' quotes about their colleagues

“If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.”
John Heard On Martin Scorsese

“I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic.”
Marley Shelton On Wes Craven

“Courteney Cox is such a great actress.”
Marley Shelton On Courteney Cox

“I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.”
Jonah Hill

“The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.”
Bruce Dern

“Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.”
Sam Elliott On Hugh Grant

“The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life.”
Kurt Fuller On Will Smith

“Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.”
Kurtwood Smith On Peter Boyle

“Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.”
Eric Stoltz

“I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.”
Harry Carey Jr.

“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
Martin Landau On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius.”
Leland Orser

“The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.”
Joe Pantoliano On Cary Grant

“Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.”
Donal Logue

“When Brian De Palma would come out with a new movie, the whole first two weeks before the movie opened, I would count down the days. That week before Scarface opened, that was Scarface Week.”
Quentin Tarantino On Brian De Palma

“He usually knows what he wants, and I guess having been a writer and a director, he knows what to shoot.”

Peter Jason

“I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.”
Richard Griffiths On Bette Davis, Jane Russell

“I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.”
Xander Berkeley On Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze

“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive.”
Stellan Skarsgård

“Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.”
John Leguizamo

“If he didn't get perfection he got mad at himself, no one else.”
Henry Koster On Richard Burton

“Lorre was the most talented man I have ever seen in my life.”

Jean Negulesco

“A gutsy lady.”
George Roy Hill On Julie Andrews

“I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.”
Tim Story

“Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them.”
Sam Mendes