Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Haysbert

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.

Debra Winger

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

Dominic Monaghan

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Dito Montiel

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

Aaron Eckhart

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Baz Luhrmann

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Ludwig von Mises

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

Aaron Paul

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Fanny Burney

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

J. D. Souther

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

Ty Warner

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Capt. Richter

We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Crispin Glover

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Charles Olson

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Diane Paulus

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Demosthenes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Deborah Tannen

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.