Movie Actors Quotes

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

My favorite newer movie is "Training Day." Denzel Washington is, to me, one of the greatest actors ever. The way he gets into those roles is ridiculous.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

The best movies are simple.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.