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Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spaceyborn 1959Oscar acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actor, The Usual Suspects (25 March 1996)
- Comedy
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
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
- Beauty
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
- Acting
- Truth & Lies
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
Actresses can only play women. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldbergborn 1955Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.
- Acting
- Women
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
James Spaderborn 1960Playboy (May 2005)
- Acting
- Love
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 was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Interview with Pierre Salinger, June 22, 1982
- Acting
- Character
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
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
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)
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
It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith1934–2024“You have to laugh” (2004)
- Acting