Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor.

Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Alec Guinness

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Mathieu Amalric

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Martin Scorsese

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

Megan Hilty

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Ringo Starr

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Tim Burton

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Rudy Rucker

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

William Goldman

Anybody that says different is selling something.

Walter Lippmann

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Vladimir Putin

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

Jorge Luis Borges

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Steven Pressfield

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

Peter Drucker

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

Marianne Williamson

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Michel Foucault

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?