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I have never seen the film, but by all accounts, it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it’s terrific.
Michael Caineborn 1933On Jaws: The Revenge (1987); interview in Cosmopolitan, cited in The Salina Journal (4 December 1994), p. 16
- Comedy
The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.
Bruce Campbellborn 1958
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, ‘We’ll let you know.’
JCJohn Cassavetes
- Money
This is fascinating! I love this picture! So I know it’s going to be a bomb. It’s always a disaster when you love something.
JCJohn Cassavetes
When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
- Acting
- Money
You don’t have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.
Cherborn 1946Remark (December 1988), reported in Brewer’s Cinema (1995)
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
John Cleeseborn 1939On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)
- Acting
- Comedy
Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence
But have no armour ‘gainst indifference.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Prologue (1939) to Oliver Goldsmith’s The Good Natur’d Man (1768).
- Acting
The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Daniel Day-Lewisborn 1957Rolling Stone interview, 8 February 1990
- Acting
I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.
Robert De Niroborn 1943“What I’ve Learned”, Esquire
- Acting
I find characters with a little evil in them much more interesting to play than the good guy. I’d rather play Doc Holliday than Wyatt Earp.
Kirk Douglas1916–2020Interview by Ron Miller (1984)
- Acting
- Good & Evil
As actors it is easy for us to play the hero. We get to fight the bad guys and stand up for justice. In real life, the choices are not always so clear.
Kirk Douglas1916–2020“Kirk Douglas On Trumbo: ‘I Was Threatened That Using A Blacklisted Writer Would End My Career’” by Pete Hammond, Deadline (19 November 2015)
- Acting
- Decisions
The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, but we have the Western.
Robert Duvall1931–2026“Robert Duvall reflects on The Godfather in final USA TODAY interview” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today (16 February 2026)
- America
I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see ‘hits,’ and discourage exploration.
Roger Ebert1942–2013In: Jonathan Silverman, ‎Dean Rader (2005), The world is a text, p. 315
I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will⁠—the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.
Roger Ebert1942–2013Review of Gerry (28 February 2003)