Quotes by Actors - Page 12

So when people see me walking on the street, they feel like we're old pals. Women pull my cheeks and men clap me on the shoulder; I'm like a petting zoo. But movie stars, on the other hand, are much more untouchable. Those are people that you watch from afar. They're regal lions. I'm a friendly goat.

Kunal Nayyar

There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

Richard Attenborough

Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.

Ronald Reagan

In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

George Carlin

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Colin Firth

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.

Will Rogers

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Jon Bon Jovi

Live Long and Prosper

Leonard Nimoy

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Steven Wright

I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.

Jim Gaffigan

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now,So you know that you ain't got forever just right now,Good to remember death man.

Tarell Alvin McCraney

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Bruce Lee

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

George Carlin

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Bruce Lee

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Craig Ferguson

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Ben Johnson

If your inner silence begins to wear a silk fruit; only then, the day will reveal to you its hidden secret.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Adults are just children who earn money.

Kenneth Branagh

Should’ is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers.

Frank Beddor

Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Ronald Reagan

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

Tenacious D

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.

Woody Allen

...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.

Stephen Fry

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

W.C.Fields

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalier

We are what we are. If you are different, it's because you are special. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

John Inman

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Yukio Mishima

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

Bob Hope

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.

George Burns

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

Harold Ramis

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Spencer Tracy

But one day he said to me:‘I’ve got it now. It’s reading isn’t it?’‘I’m sorry?’‘You read a lot, don’t you? That’s where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.’The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse novel in his hands. I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. When I heard, some years later, that he had got into Cambridge I thought to myself, I know how that happened. He decided one day to read.

Stephen Fry

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...

William Petersen

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Ed Harris

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it.

Studs Terkel

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Milton Berle

It's difficult to continue loving someone who shits on you.

Gene Wilder

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

Will Rogers

It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.

Brian Regan

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

Clint Eastwood

Communication through revelation is part of what makes Christianity unique. It takes you from a vague idea of “there is some kind of something up there,” to a personal God who communicates with us, revealing what he is like and how to have a relationship with him. Anything that could get in the way of that revelation would be disastrous to us either knowing about God or knowing him personally.

Jon Morrison

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Ronald Reagan

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

John Osborne

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Rob Lowe

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

Tim McGraw

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Ice-T

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

James Dean

Only courage to fragility makes our hearts melt with fervent love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

Groucho Marx

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard R. Grant

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Molière

I spilled spot remover on my dog now he's gone.

Steven Wright

I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side

Damon Gameau

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

Peter O'Toole

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Konstantin Stanislavski

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