Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives. "

F. Murray Abraham

Related Quotes:

" I'm a very proud actor. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough. "

F. Murray Abraham

" One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?' "

F. Murray Abraham

" With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? "

F. Murray Abraham

" After I finished school, I headed for Los Angeles, thinking, 'Movies. Beaches.' But I wanted to do serious stage work, so I upped sticks and moved to New York to study. I did the usual day jobs to support myself - waiting on tables, washing dishes, parking cars, anything to pay the rent. I was a terrible waiter, by the way. "

F. Murray Abraham

" Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. "

F. Murray Abraham

" The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth. "

F. Murray Abraham

" As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.' "

F. Murray Abraham

" I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me. "

F. Murray Abraham

" Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him. "

F. Murray Abraham

" If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. "

F. Murray Abraham

" All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else. "

F. Murray Abraham

" There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one. "

F. Murray Abraham

" No matter all of your credits and accomplishments - you can be forgotten in a trice. The idea that you have to go back and start again after considerable success can destroy you if you're not strong. I never lost track of who I am and what I can do, because I continually find things to do, but not everyone has that resource. "

F. Murray Abraham

" My Oscar has appeared in every play I've done since - not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely. "

F. Murray Abraham

" My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I'm a comedian at heart, and I really can make people laugh, but ever since 'Amadeus,' all I seem to do is play dramatic roles and villains. "

F. Murray Abraham

" The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. "

F. Murray Abraham

" People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. "

F. Murray Abraham

" Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it. "

F. Murray Abraham

" I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. "

F. Murray Abraham