Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Robert Doisneau

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Wagner

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Will Smith

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Salma Hayek

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

Edward de Bono

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Barry McCaffrey

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Rob Zombie

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

Russell Johnson

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

William Shatner

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

Sarah Bernhardt

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Sandra Oh

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Werner Herzog

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him,

Wallace Shawn

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.