Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actors - Page 16

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

Black history is American history.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.

If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.