Actors quotes

“I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier

“Herb's an interesting guy. He used to be kind of, uh... dishonest: shakedown artist, strong arm. Someone sent him to collect money from me just when I needed an inexpensive actor. Isn't it fun to know these things about your favorite stars?”

John Goodman - Lawrence Woolsey

- Bo Catlett: You broke into my house, and I have a witness to it.
- Chili Palmer: What?
- Bo Catlett: Only this time it ain't no John Wayne and Dean Martin shooting bad guys in "El Dorado".
- Chili Palmer: That was "Rio Bravo". Robert Mitchum played the drunk in "El Dorado". Dean Martin played the drunk in "Rio Bravo". Basically, it was the... (continue)(continue reading)

Delroy Lindo - Bo Catlett
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

“Even Brad Pitt's throbbing cock couldn't make me feel better right now!”
Jenny McCarthy - Rebecca Sommers

“A chorus line of soap stars and homosexuals.”

James Cromwell - Prince Philip

Dana Andrews was swell in "Laura", but what if Bogart had played Lt. MacPherson? Yeah, Bogart... smoking a cigarette and looking up at that portrait, thinking Laura was dead, but still in love with her. What a love scene. And neither of them naked!
Robert Sacchi - Sam Marlow

“It's like a Bruce Lee movie without Bruce.”

Loren Avedon - Jake Donahue

“You know what really chaps my ass? After years of training and study, the only parts they'll give us are gangbangers. Just once I'd like to play a character who has decent grammar and doesn't wear Timberlands.”
Taye Diggs - Sean James

“- Ben Greene: Sadie, what's the first rule for being an agent?
- Sadie: Never forget an actor killed Lincoln.
- Ben Greene: Head of the class!”
Burgess Meredith - Ben Greene
Lillian Randolph - Sadie

“- Mrs. Finsecker: Barbra Streisand didn't change her name.
- Doris: I don't want to talk about it any more!
- Mrs. Finsecker: Well, I'll call you Doris, like I always have.
- Doris: Well, I won't answer!
- Mrs. Finsecker: It's a perfectly good name!
- Doris: Yeah, for a perfectly good person. A skinny, boring, nondescript, perfectly good person.”
Tresa Hughes - Mrs. Finsecker
Maureen Teefy - Doris

“I want to be a star so bad! I don't mean a little star, I want to be a big star! With three agents, and a business manager, and a press agent. And then I would fire all of them and I would hire new ones because I am such a big star! And I would make everyone pay for the 22 years I have poured into this business. I wouldn't do benefits, I...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Coco - Jimmy Perrino

“You're the greatest actor in the world. Everybody knows that, including you.”

Carole Lombard - Maria Tura

“It doesn't take a great actor to recognize a bad one.”
Tim Allen - Jason Nesmith

“- Spats Baxter: Say, do you think you could write a Broadway score?
- Dick Cummings: Oh, it's been my lifelong dream, for years!”

George C. Scott - Spats Baxter
Barry Bostwick - Dick Cummings

“That's more than a dress. That's an Audrey Hepburn movie.”

Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

“- Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!
- Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?”
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“Please, Gary. I'm not from Hollywood, I'm not going to fuck your mouth.”
Daran Norris - Spottswoode

“For crying out loud, Roger, I don't know how many times we have to do this damn scene! Raoul, I'll be in my trailer, taking a nap!”
Lou Hirsch - Baby Herman

“- Sarah: You're the only actor in the world who can't lie. If you can't touch somebody you created, how can you create somebody that'll touch anybody?
- Johnny: What are you going on about?
- Sarah: Acting. And bringing something to life, it's the same thing. That's why you can't get a job acting, because you can't feel anything.”
Samantha Morton - Sarah
Paddy Considine - Johnny

“I couldn't afford a place like this in a million years... unless, of course, I'm discovered and become a movie star. Of course, I'd rather be known as a great actress than a movie star. But, you know, sometimes people end up being both. So that is, I guess you'd say, sort of why I came here. I'm sorry. I'm just so excited to be here. I mean I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Naomi Watts - Betty

“- Kevin Sandusky - Hot LZ: You guys all read the script, right?
- Kirk Lazarus: I don't read the script, script reads me.
[pause]
- Kevin Sandusky - Hot LZ: What the hell does that even mean?”
Jay Baruchel - Kevin Sandusky - Hot LZ
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus

“I heard that Marilyn Monroe was discovered in a soda shop and I thought for sure that it could be like that, so I started going out real young and I was always secretly looking for who was going to discover me.”
Charlize Theron - Aileen

“- Guy Fleegman: I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.
- Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy, maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?
- Guy Fleegman: Plucky?”
Sam Rockwell - Guy Fleegman
Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan

“- Conrad Brooks: You know which movie of yours I love, Mr. Lugosi? The Invisible Ray. You were great as Karloff's sidekick.
- Bela Lugosi: Karloff? Sidekick? Fuck you! Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in hell for all I care!”
Brent Hinkley - Conrad Brooks
Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi

“- Noodles: Well, at least you recognized me. That's something.
- Deborah: Actresses have good memories.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Elizabeth McGovern - Deborah