Actor Quotes

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry o

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.