Actors quotes

“- Valerie Weston: I'm gonna go home, Steven. That's right. I'm serious. Because of you, I'm gonna get gangbanged, Steven. Gangbanged in Woodland Hills.
- Steven Schats: A lot of great actresses started out in porn.”
Calista Flockhart - Valerie Weston
Matthew Broderick - Steven Schats

“A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.”
Kevin Bacon

“I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!”
Jonathan Pryce

“They're just using the same actor over and over. What kind of cut-rate production is this?”

John Deszo Ratzenberger - Mack

“- Jill Sadelstein: [after breaking his Oscar] Oh, my God! I'm so sorry! I am sure you have others, though.
- Al Pacino: Uh, you'd think it, but, uh, oddly enough, I don't.”
Adam Sandler - Jill Sadelstein
Al Pacino - Al Pacino

“- Mookie: Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
- Pino: Magic Johnson.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite movie star?
- Pino: Eddie Murphy.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite rock star? Prince. You're a Prince freak.
- Pino: Boss. Bruce.”
Spike Lee - Mookie
John Turturro - Pino

“He is a nightmare! He's impossible; he doesn't turn up, he refuses to say any line that's written, it's just ridiculous.”
Anthony Hickox On Steven Seagal

“I thought Richard Burton was a wonderful man. He still is a wonderful man, no matter how many times he marries Elizabeth Taylor.”
Henry Koster On Richard Burton

“[on Clint Eastwood] I discovered he was a liar and a cheat who was leading a double, no, a triple if not a quadruple life, and who was terrified of being found out.”
Sondra Locke On Clint Eastwood

“There are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse.”
Adrian Lyne

“Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.”
Barbet Schroeder

“[on Robert Redford] Redford is a dangerous man to let loose on the streets. He has holes in his head, he should be arrested.”
George Roy Hill On Robert Redford

“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

“Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.”
Tom Hooper

Well, actually I started directing in theatre a few years ago, and I always appreciated my job as an actor, as a craftsman, it seemed to me quite natural to "build" a film altogether.
Sergio Castellitto

“Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.”
Randal Kleiser

“Like actors, directors get typecast.”
Randal Kleiser

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

“Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.”
Grant Heslov

“Making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.”
Francis Lawrence

“Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.”
Richard Donner On Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman

“It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.”
Richard Donner

“You don’t want to get put in a box.”
Andrew Davis

“I had been around actors all my life because of my folks.”
Andrew Davis

“So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them.”
Joe Dante