Actors quotes

“Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.”
Johnny Depp

“If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.”
Christian Bale

“The first day I saw Richard Burton on the 'Cleopatra' set, there was a lot of hemming and hawing and he said hello to Joe Mankiewicz and everyone. And then he sort of sidled over to me and said 'Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?'. And I said to myself, Oh gevaldt, here's the great lover, the great wit, the great...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor

“Those pictures I made with Fred Astaire will hold up on today's TV and all types of people praise them. They were made for sheer entertainment, fun and yes, we had fun making them, though in those days before the Screen Actors Guild we'd sometimes work through the nights, two days at a time. And at the end of those long stretches, that's when...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ginger Rogers

“The day I need make-up I will quit filming.”
William M. Holden

“I've done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money. I didn't need it... the lure of the zeros was simply too great.”
Richard Burton

“Money, money, money. Everyone has to have managers and accountants. The entourages now! Bogie never had anyone.”
Lauren Bacall On Humphrey Bogart

“Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.”
Spencer Tracy

“Rambo? Rambo's a pussy.”
Sylvester Stallone - Lt. Raymond Tango

“What's awful about being famous and being an actress and being petite is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.”
Winona Ryder

“I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.”
Jayne Mansfield

“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting.”
Chuck Norris

“It's like a gypsy curse, it's terrible. The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.”
Lana Turner

“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.”
Lana Turner

“- John: That's great! I mean, just like Sam L. Jackson.
- Samantha Jackson: Who is that?
- Ted: You ever seen any movie ever? He's the black guy.”

Mark Wahlberg - John Bennett
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? ”
Jerry Lewis

“I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Eventually I became an actor so I guess it's a little bit of both.”
Terry Serpico

“I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.”
Scott Glenn

“He taught me practically everything I know, and it was he who first introduced me to myself as an actor.”
Toshirō Mifune On Akira Kurosawa

“One of the tools that an actor has - and it's a trite thing, but you can really use it a lot - is imagination.”
Ed Lauter

“Film making is a hugely collaborative activity and every actor contributes something valuable to the story as well as every crew member.”
Bruce Spence

“If a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.”
Tobin Bell

“When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.”
Jordi Mollà

“It's hard for the American industry to see a Latin actor playing something that is not a gardener or someone in a cartel.”
Jordi Mollà

“I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.”
Mark Ruffalo