Actor Quotes

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I never planned on being a plumber.

I liked being in the spotlight.

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

I just love women.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.