Actors quotes

“Steve has to prove he had a worse childhood than anybody else. Only one other person I know can compete with him and that’s Charles Bronson.”
James Coburn On Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson

“If James Dean had lived they’d have discovered he wasn’t a legend.”
Humphrey Bogart On James Dean

“She doesn’t give a damn how she looks. I don’t think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.”
Humphrey Bogart On Katharine Hepburn

“I didn’t do anything I’ve never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she’s saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic.”
Humphrey Bogart On Ingrid Bergman

“All you owe the public is a good performance.”
Humphrey Bogart

“That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.”
Bud Abbott

“Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.”
Bud Abbott

“- Father Vito Cornelius: I'm really sorry to have to resort to these methods, Mr. Willis!
- Korben Dallas: Dallas.”
Sir Ian Holm - Father Vito Cornelius
Bruce Willis - Korben Dallas

“My job, as an actor, is to give the director options.”
Johnny Depp

“'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity.”
Johnny Depp

“When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.”
Sir Michael Caine

“A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.”
Sir Michael Caine

“If you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”
Morgan Freeman

“It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.”
Morgan Freeman

“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.”
Jeff Bridges

“They're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.”

Christian Bale

“It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.”
Christian Bale

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”
Christian Bale

“I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.”
Robert De Niro

“There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.”
Robert De Niro

“I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.”
Robert De Niro

“I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.”
Robert De Niro

“It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.”
Harrison Ford

“I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.”
Harrison Ford On Sir Ridley Scott

“I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.”
Harrison Ford