Actor Quotes

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

All I can do is put on my armor and brace for the arrows.

I'm really kind of a vampire at heart.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.