Actor Quotes

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

Patch grief with proverbs.

Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.

We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose thatthe world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?It were not good.

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

These times of woe afford no time to woo.

Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

Beauty lives with kindness.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

Does killing time damage eternity?

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

The country has gone sane and got back to horses.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose ofgovernment intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.