Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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

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.

Wallace Shawn

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

Salman Khan

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Ewan McGregor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

Kirsten Dunst

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kenneth Williams

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Paul Feig

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

Linus Roache

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Julie London

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Jonathan Demme

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Malcolm McDowell

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Gavin Hood

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.