Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies. "

Related Quotes:

" I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career. "

" I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. "

" It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. "

" I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. "

" He lives with his creativity in high gear. "

" Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races. "

" I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life. "

" As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. "

" And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. "

" You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. "

" A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking. "

" I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new. "

" I love Scientology. I've been involved for 38 years, and I don't think I'd be here without it because I've had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly. "

" I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature. "

" I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about. "

" I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here. "

" I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. "

" I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. "

" Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses. "

" I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. "

" Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out. "

" I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun. "

" When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground. "

" It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview. "

" I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be. "

" You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them. "

" It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you. "

" The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. "

" When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes. "

" Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy. "