Quotes by Actors - Page 36

Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.
Simon Pegg
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.
Jim Beaver
The more deeply one enters into the experience of the sacred the more one is aware of one’s own personal evil and the destructive forces in society. The fact that one is alive to what is possible for humankind sharpens one’s sense that we are fallen people. The awareness of sin is the inevitable consequence of having met grace... This grace-judgment dynamic reveals that the center of Christian life is repentance. This does not mean that the distinguishing mark of the Christian is breast-beating. Feeling sorry, acknowledging guilt, and prolonging regret may be components of the human condition, but they are not what Jesus means by repentance. Repentance is the response to grace that overcomes the past and opens out to a new future. Repentance distinguishes Christian life as one of struggle and conversion and pervades it, not with remorse, but with hope. The message of Jesus is not “Repent,” but “Repent for the Kingdom of God is near.
John Shea
In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.
Ralph Harris
If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.
Dwayne Johnson
I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..
Nick Santino
My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.
Chris Gethard
I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.
Craig Ferguson
The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure. How terrible to paint pictures and feel that no one wants them. How awful it would be to write music that no one wants to hear. Books that no one wants to read. And how would you like to be an actor with no part to play, and no audience to watch you. Poor Vincent—he wrestled with his soul in the wheat field of Auvers-sur-Oise, stacks of his unsold paintings collecting dust in his brother's house. It was all too much for him, and he pulled the trigger and ended it all. My heart ached for van Gogh the afternoon that I played that scene. As I write this, I look up at a poster of his "Irises"—a poster from the Getty Museum. It's a beautiful piece of art with one white iris sticking up among a field of blue ones. They paid a fortune for it, reportedly $53 million. And poor Vincent, in his lifetime, sold only one painting for 400 francs or $80 dollars today. This is what stimulated my interest in buying works of art from living artists. I want them to know while they are alive that I enjoy their paintings hanging on my walls, or their sculptures decorating my garden
Kirk Douglas
A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.
Leslie Austin
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.
Sam Shepard
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.
Robert De Niro
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.
Donal Logue
Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment,it lives forever, immortally fixed.
Keegan Allen
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does
Groucho Marx
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
Ronald Reagan
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
Michael Palin
There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.
Jason Gann
Darkness is a strange thing — it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.("Come Into My Parlour")
Reggie Oliver
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
Tracy Letts
Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.
Edward Herrmann
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin
You gotta want it.
Bill Murray
The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down.
Flip Wilson
I once met an RAF pilot who told me of what he called a "bird strike". This, rather unfairly in my view, made it sound as if it was the bird's fault; as if the little feathered chap had deliberately tried to head-butt twenty tons of metal travelling in the opposite direction at just under the speed of sound, out of spite.
Hugh Laurie
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
Billy Connolly
The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
Demetri Martin
Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast?
Demetri Martin
Fact: The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.
Demetri Martin
A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.
Groucho Marx
He may wear what he likes in the future, for I shall never drive with him again. His conduct was shocking. When we passed Highgate Archway, he tried to pass everything and everybody. He shouted to respectable people who were walking quietly in the road to get out of the way; he flicked at the horse of an old man who was riding, causing it to rear; and, as I had to ride backwards, I was compelled to face a gang of roughs in a donkey-cart, whom Lupin had chaffed, and who turned and followed us for nearly a mile, bellowing, indulging in coarse jokes and laughter, to say nothing of occasionally pelting us with orange-peel.
George Grossmith
I told Sarah not to bring up the blanc-mange again for breakfast. It seems to have been placed on our table at every meal since Wednesday… In spite of my instructions, that blanc-mange was brought up again for supper. To make matters worse, there had been an attempt to disguise it, by placing it in a glass dish with jam round it...I told Carrie, when we were alone, if that blanc-mange were placed on the table again I should walk out of the house.
George Grossmith
Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.
Michael Hogan
Yo Mama's like mustard, she spreads easy.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama sucks so much d***, her lips went double platinum.
Oliver Oliver Reed
What’s the difference between Yo Mama and a 747?-About 20 pounds.-Yo mama carries more passengers.-Not everyone's been on a 747.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama's like a library, open to the public.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama's so fat, her ass has its own congressman!
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama's so fat her butt cheeks have different area codes.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Superman once challenged Chuck Norris to a fight, the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside.
Oliver Oliver Reed
No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.
Demetri Martin
Yo Mama’s so ugly, her Mama had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Chuck Norris is the only human being to display the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- you can never know both exactly where and how quickly he will roundhouse kick you in the face.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama’s so old, her memory is in black and white.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Chuck Norris can unscramble an egg.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama’s so ugly, her dentist treats her by mail order.
Oliver Oliver Reed
For some, the left testicle is larger than the right one. For Chuck Norris, each testicle is larger than the other one.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama’s so ugly that your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye.
Oliver Oliver Reed
When Chuck Norris calls 911 it's to ask if everything is ok.
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama’s so poor, when I lit her house on fire, the cockroaches came out singing, “Clap your hands, stomp your feet, praise the Lord, we got some heat!
Oliver Oliver Reed
Yo Mama’s so ugly, when she joined an ugly contest, they said, “Sorry, no professionals.
Oliver Oliver Reed
If Yo Mama and Yo Daddy got a divorce, they'd still be brother and sister.
Oliver Oliver Reed
I might act like a rhinoceros, but I'm a unicorn.
Nuno Roque
[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
Dave Courtney
Yo! Hold my poodle!
Shawn Wayans
There is no god but Road Runner and Chuck Jones is his prophet.
John Steiner