Quotes by Actors - Page 6

Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it then you worry where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
If I had my life to live over I wish I could be a great pianist or something.
Woody Allen
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
Sylvester Stallone
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
Sir John Gielgud
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers
This gathering is what I call "intimate " which really means "Where is everybody?"
Tim Conway
I'd like to tell you some jokes now but you'd only laugh.
Milton Berle
A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.
George Jessel
On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then when you've lost all your marbles you're a public speaker.
George Jessel
The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
So get a few laughs and do the best you can.
Will Rogers
Showing up is 80 percent of life.
Woody Allen
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
O for an engine to keep back all clocks!
Ben Johnson
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!
Ben Johnson
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.
James J. Corbett
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
Clint Eastwood
Slow motion gets you there faster.
Hoagy Carmichael
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
AH I know is what I see in the papers.
Will Rogers
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
James Ellis
Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.
David Garrick
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan
I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.
Zero Mostel
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
Ed Gardner
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Bing Crosby
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Harrison Ford
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Harrison Ford
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Merlin Olsen
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says "Don't worry Be Happy Feel Good." When you see that first thing and you reflect on it the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.
Larry Hagman
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
Molière
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.
Vittorio de Sica
To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.
Will Rogers
Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Ronald Reagan
When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes I'll get another lawyer."
W.C.Fields
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W.C.Fields
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis
There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Herbert Marshall
Making money is fun but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
John Bentley
It women knew what we were thinking they'd never stop slapping us.
Larry Miller
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
Dion Boucicault
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
Merv Griffin