Famous Actor Quotes:

It's not my goal to be a famous actor

- Gavin DeGraw

topic: Goal, Actors, Famous Actor

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

- Oliver Stone

source: "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Movie, Great Year, Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting, Street Life

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Truth, Fake, Made, Secret Life, Being Truthful

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Real, Acting, Best Acting, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Perfect, Acting, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Acting, Doe, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Acting, Pay, Benefits, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Joseph Stefano

source: "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Mom, Mother, Boys, Mother Son, Best Film

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Doors, Space Odyssey, Memorable Movie, Quoting Movies, Science Fiction Movie

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Husband, Devil, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

- James Dean

topic: People, Acting, Needs, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

- Bette Davis

topic: Acting, Wonder, Creation, Best Acting, Stage Acting

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Fake People, Truth, Secret Life, Just Live Your Life

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

- Timur Bekmambetov

topic: Character, Creative, Actors, Famous Actor, Darkest Hour

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

- Zoey Deutch

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Lying, Reading, People, Famous Actor

It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think.

- John Leguizamo

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: New York, Thinking, Voice, Famous Actor, Edgy

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

- Tia Carrere

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Hawaii, Jason, Famous Actor

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

- Alice Eve

topic: Strong, Dad, Believe, Famous Actor

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.

- Cory Monteith

source: "Cory Monteith's Turning Point". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. June 24, 2011.

topic: School, Kids, Thinking, Famous Actor

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

- Melvin Helitzer

source: Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books

topic: Dying, Actors, Comedy, Deathbed, Famous Actor

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.

- Alice Eve

topic: School, Kids, Thinking, Famous Actor

As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.

- Idris Elba

source: "Idris Elba Talks LUTHER Season 3, Luther’s New Love Interest and His Relationship with Alice, Exploring a Prequel Story, and Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

topic: Nice, Careers, Interesting, Famous Actor, Really Amazing

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

- Samantha Bond

topic: Memories, Men, Climbing, Famous Actor

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Actors, Want, Bus, Bus Stops, Famous Actor

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

- Derek Sivers

source: "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

topic: Successful, Years, Tv Shows, Demos, Famous Actor