American Quotes

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

I've always loved film more than theater.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.