Actor Quotes

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

There is no good side to celebrity.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

I don't know how to drive a car.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

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

That has always been it for me: family first.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

I divide my time badly.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

Films should be for everybody.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.