Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tom Folsom

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Steve Erickson

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

Stanley Crouch

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Simon Cowell

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

Shirley Jackson

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Shepard Smith

I like stories that affect families.

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.

Harry Morgan

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

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

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.

Zhang Ziyi

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

Rachel Weisz

I find Hollywood really toxic.

John Schlesinger

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Doug Hall

Let's just say Hollywood is very different, a world in itself.

Jason Gann

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Fred Goss

It's set in a suburb of Cincinnati. But we're actually shooting at Sunset and Gower (in Hollywood).

Julie Harris

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

Julian Sands

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

Becky G

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

Cory Monteith

I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.