urgent

"Appear as though you're late for a train."
- Peter O'Toole's acting advice

on acting

 

"I become someone else because I'm very insecure."
- Billy Dee Williams [born 1937]

naive mania

 

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on directing

"Find your marks, say a few lines."
- Clint Eastwood [born 1930]

on movie acting

smile

 

"The only thing sadder than a person in a bad situation who knows it, is a person who doesn't know they're in trouble."
- Nicholas Cage [born 1964]

hellraiser

 

"The only exercise I get is walking behind the coffins of old mates who exercised."
- Peter O'Toole [1932-2013]

a person of integrity and honor.

 

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"When we were coming up in the early '60s, there were no drugs. Alcohol was our drug. We thought the alcohol killed the brain cells that caused inhibition."

- Sir Michael Caine [born 1933]

on Hollywood

"There are a lot of broken people in this business."
- Billy Bob Thornton

on humility

"When you think you're important, think again. You're not."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins

on people who congratulate themselves

"Art is intensely competitive."
- Robert Duvall

on gratitude

"That I haven't been found out."
- Liam Neeson and Sir Anthony Hopkins on their shared persisting feelings of the fraudulence of their professional aptitudes.  

on acting awards

"Actors haven't got a thought in their stupid bed-head mini-brains. We must honour this guy - he pretended to be Bob Johnson. It's genius, I tell you! Put on these clothes, roll the cameras, say what we told you to say! Fantastic! Give this guy a huge golden trophy! Goddamn genius."
- Jerry Seinfeld  

Being in an unrefined or natural state

Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting.

Patton: It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know.

on directing

"Either a little more or a little less."
- John Huston

on acting

"You live with rejection."
- Kevin Spacey

reputed to be the best ever

"Acting is lying for a living ... I don't want my lie to be disbelieved."
- Marlon Brando