Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actors - Page 20

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.

This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met.

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.