Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "

Related Quotes:

" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "

" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "

" Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. "

" I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. "

" Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. "

" I never really did a western western. "

" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "

" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "

" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "

" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "

" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "

" Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream. "

" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "

" I'm not a control maniac. "

" I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater. "

" I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along. "

" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "

" Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. "

" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "

" I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. "

" I don't think my parents know what I do. "

" I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. "

" I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. "

" I've done quite a few big American films. "

" Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? "

" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "

" I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. "

" People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. "

" I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. "

" Politics is not really my thing. "