Actor Quotes

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

We were all Romans once, I guess.

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

The world is as it should be.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.