Quotes by Actors - Page 7

You have no right to be silenced.

James DeVita

Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8.

Terry Deary

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

Stephen Fry

Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

Robert Beatty

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere

Sting

Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life." (Life Hacks, p.51)

Jon Morrison

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

Johnny Depp

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Orson Welles

If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

W.C.Fields

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

Dylan Moran

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Tim Minchin

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

Ronald Reagan

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Ossie Davis

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.

Zero Mostel

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Orson Welles

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

Tupac Shakur

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.

Antonin Artaud

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Will Rogers

I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food they don’t like. I feel guilty when I drop them off at school. I feel guilty when I pick them up at school. I feel guilty mostly for writing this book instead of spending time with them.

Jim Gaffigan

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Ronald Reagan

I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.

Michael Fassbender

I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am. Except that i'm not struggling. I'm Hector Kipling. I might be getting up at all hours of the night to look at my big, blank, empty canvas, but I am not fucking struggling.

David Thewlis

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

Patrick Murray

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

Yukio Mishima

1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA

James Dalton

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Antonin Artaud

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Rob Reiner

All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

Alexander Woollcott

My childhood was a drag show!

Nuno Roque

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

Harvey Fierstein

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

Tony Hancock

The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.

Ira Aldridge

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

Craig Ferguson

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Ben Johnson

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Stephen Fry

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

Craig Ferguson

Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

Harrison Ford

Lasik surgery has evolved. Remarkably, it has merged with cataract surgery to give birth to a new procedure called Prelex.

Rajesh Khanna

This is what you have to understand. You grew up, you went to this school and that one, you made these friends and those. It was nothing. The future is a much bigger deal than the past, Adrian, a much bigger deal. Not just because it has babies in it, but because there are better people in it, who are better behaved and more fun to be with, the scenery is better, the weather is better, the rewards and thrills are better. But I really am not sure that you will ever...

Stephen Fry

Fortunately for me, I came out of ray misadventures with drugs and alcohol with my life, health, and soul pretty much intact. I know many who didn't. It's not harmless. I've lost many friends to that way of life. Some have died. Some have simply fried their hard drives for the rest of time or live in a perpetual chemical fog. I'm betting not one of them would say, "It was worth it.

Rainn Wilson

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

Craig Ferguson

The ''good-enough marriage'' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.

Aziz Ansari

I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock."— Michelle Tea, "Paris: A

Clint Catalyst

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

John Osborne

If you're lonely when he's around, happiest when he's sad, and angry when he's overjoyed, get a new life. Without him.

Ace Antonio Hall

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)

Jon Morrison

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

Kenneth Haigh

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Billy Crystal

I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

Robin Hawdon

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

Steve Martin

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