Quotes by Actors - Page 9

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
Willie Nelson
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as good as dead.
James Caan
Life is enthusiasm zest.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Enthusiasm is life.
Paul Scofield
To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homolka
O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott
We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
Robert Morley
It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
Cedric Hardwicke
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.
Chad Morgan
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.
Robert Burke
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W.C.Fields
I've noticed the customers in health food stores. They are pale skinny people who usually look half dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying of course but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby
I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.
George Gobel
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
W.C.Fields
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
Robert Benchley
I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.
W.C.Fields
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.
W.C.Fields
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.
W.C.Fields
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.
George Gobel
You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin
He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
John Barrymore
Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
Rodney Dangerfield
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Molière
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
Molière
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
George. C. Scott
Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.
Molière
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.
Woody Allen
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein
If you aren't going all the way why go at all?
Joe Namath
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx
When I first came to this country I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket.
Groucho Marx
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
Theo Cowan
Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."
Richard Jeni
It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Groucho Marx
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
Woody Allen
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
Woody Allen
As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noël Coward
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.
Will Rogers
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers