Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Fiennes

There's only one day to shoot one scene, you don't get a second chance. You've got to say, This is what I feel. Could I try this?

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Alan Bates

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

David Warner

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Warner

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Michael York

I always go by instinct. I have been a freelance my whole career, and I always go by my instincts, and thus remain responsible for my own decisions.

John Leeson

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

John Thaw

I feel very proud to have created a character that is so respected. On the other hand, as an actor, I have more freedom now to do other things.

Alan Bates

But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had doing a lot of different things.

David Prowse

By then of course I knew my voice would be overdubbed and I wasn't worried about saying my lines quite as correctly as I did in the first film.

Albert Finney

I don't really look back at all. When I've made a film, I've made it. They kind of go out into the world and they're on their own really.

Albert Finney

I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist?

Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

Alan Bates

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

Julian Glover

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Richard Wilson

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

Tim Roth

My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.

Jason Statham

I'm impressed with the likes of Jet Li and Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee was a big hero of mine for many years. They're great influences.

Colin Firth

I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.

Richard Wilson

Most of my mail comes from young people.

Julian Sands

I was in my mid-20s when I did A Room With A View, and now I'm 41. I can't think of anything since that has been that widely viewed.

John Thaw

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

David Prowse

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

John Thaw

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

Michael Flanders

If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads.

John Leeson

I don't think the pilot worked particularly well, because the setting was terrestrial rather than otherworldly, in space or whatever.

Colin Firth

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Colin Firth

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

Vincent Frank

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

Vincent Frank

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Vincent Frank

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

Vincent Frank

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.