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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
Roger Moore1927–2017
- Acting
After ‘The Matrix,’ I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.
Carrie-Anne Mossborn 1967
We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world. So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.
Cillian Murphyborn 1976“Cillian Murphy Wins Best Actor: “I Would Really Like to Dedicate This to the Peacemakers”” in Vanity Fair (10 March 2024)
- War & Peace
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
- Acting
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain’t⁠—take two!
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
- Acting
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don’t agree with, or maybe I just haven’t thought of it or whatever, I’d be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it’s going to become predictably my work, and that’s not fun.
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
- Acting
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
Michelle Pfeifferborn 1958Esquire (1990)
- Acting
- Fame
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018In: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1972). Time, Vol. 100. p. 43
- Comedy
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson1902–1983Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
- Acting
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson1902–1983As quoted in the New York Herald Tribune (19 May 1946)
- Acting
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman1946–2016Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son” by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
- Education
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Acting
I don’t think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.
Martin Scorseseborn 1942Scorsese on Scorsese (1989), ed. David Thompson and Ian Christie
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling1924–1975Rod Serling Vogue, (1 April, 1957).
- Acting
- Writing