Actor Quotes

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.