Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Jared Harris

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

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.

Joseph Fiennes

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Leslie Banks

I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.

Terence Stamp

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

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.

Hugh Dancy

No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

Hugh Dancy

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

Tim Roth

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

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.

Leslie Banks

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Brandon Thomas

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brandon Thomas

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Brandon Thomas

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Paul Scofield

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Paul Scofield

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Scofield

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Patrick Macnee

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.