“No matter how much I drank the night before, I never once was late on his films. But with Kurosawa, sometimes people are waiting, and he never shows up.”
Toshirō Mifune On Akira Kurosawa

“Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.”
Tony Randall On Marilyn Monroe

“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
Sir Michael Caine

“You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.”
John Barrymore

“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”
Richard Burton