Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Jules Shear

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Russell Baker

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Brand

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Triple H

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

William Wordsworth

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Tupac Shakur

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

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.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

Russell Johnson

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

Russell Crowe

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Romola Garai

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

William Mapother

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

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