Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Burke

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Chloe Grace Moretz

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Eddie Murphy

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

David Brinkley

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Charlize Theron

I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Earl Blumenauer

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

Elizabeth Montgomery

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Charlotte Rae

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

Paul Lewis

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

Bill Mumy

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Charles Bronson

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Chad Lowe

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

Norman Wisdom

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.