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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
BARRY BOSTWICK![]()
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi...
VIN DIESEL![]()
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge...
JAMES FRANCO![]()
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thin...
JOHN BARROWMAN In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of t...
ROBIN GIBB![]()
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession...
UTA HAGEN![]()
'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from M...
BOBBY FLAY![]()
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,...
BOBBY ORR Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I ...
LUPITA NYONG'O I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted...
JACK DAVENPORT And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r...
CLINT HOWARD That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some...
LEWIS BLACK![]()
If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
BONNIE HUNT![]()
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lo...
STEPHEN ROOT![]()
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
IDRIS ELBA I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all ...
KYP MALONE![]()
The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face...
DEYTH BANGER You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to m...
COREY HART![]()
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ...
CHARLES S. DUTTON I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else ent...
ATOM EGOYAN![]()
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER![]()
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
DAVID CHANG![]()
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will ...
BENJAMIN BRATT As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a...
RAFE SPALL If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach...
BILL NUNN![]()
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore....
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can...
DENISE VAN OUTEN![]()
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
SAM WATERSTON You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that ar...
SAFFRON BURROWS Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult...
JEFF WEINER Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could ...
GLENN DANZIG That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
DAMIAN LEWIS![]()
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just pr...
PARIS HILTON![]()
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t...
VANESSA HUDGENS![]()
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize th...
COREY HAWKINS The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD![]()
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't reall...
PATRICK MACNEE As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.&#...
YAEL GROBGLAS For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you sho...
FRED DURST Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think...
KATE ASHFIELD If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the mos...
JAVIER BARDEM![]()
I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER![]()
I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.
ARJUN KAPOOR I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the T...
MORGAN SPURLOCK The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing...
CHAD KELLY![]()
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I&...
MARTIN SCORSESE Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a w...
IKE BARINHOLTZ I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d...
CHUCK CLOSE My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely differ...
EDDIE MARSAN You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity ...
TAGG ROMNEY Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but...
ELIZABETH MITCHELL![]()
If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't mat...
CHRIS NOTH Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that...
VAL GUEST![]()
You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.
DAVID THEWLIS Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have ...
DULE HILL As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER![]()
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always wan...
ANEURIN BARNARD![]()
7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
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IAN SOMERHALDER![]()
Kids do their own thing. We let them be real kids. You get an immediate response - if they don't...
GLOZELL I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too ...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER![]()
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own m...
ALBERT BROOKS The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all a...
BOBBY FARRELLY![]()
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn&...
ALAN STERN![]()
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor,...
DAVID L. WOLPER![]()
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD![]()
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especial...
AARON STANFORD![]()
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co...
GEORGE LOPEZ![]()
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
ANDY SERKIS If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn&...
ROELOF BOTHA I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to over...
YAHOO SERIOUS![]()
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b...
KEN ROBINSON I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know w...
CLAIRE FOY![]()
One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo...
JASON RITTER So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as...
PHIL HARTMAN I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t...
RANDY TRAVIS![]()
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you cou...
MARTIN SELIGMAN You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.
JAMIE DORNAN One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
FLAVOR FLAV I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.
CASEY NICHOLAW![]()
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a...
ZAHI HAWASS If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a ...
ALFONSO RIBEIRO![]()
'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing aroun...
JONAH HILL Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU
BARRY BOSTWICK
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... VIN DIESEL
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to ge... JAMES FRANCO
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thin... JOHN BARROWMAN In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of t...
ROBIN GIBB
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession... UTA HAGEN
'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from M... BOBBY FLAY
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I ...
LUPITA NYONG'O I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted...
JACK DAVENPORT And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r...
CLINT HOWARD That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some...
LEWIS BLACK
If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney. BONNIE HUNT
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lo...
STEPHEN ROOT
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ... JOE WRIGHT As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
IDRIS ELBA I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all ...
KYP MALONE
The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face... DEYTH BANGER You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to m...
COREY HART
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ...
CHARLES S. DUTTON I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else ent...
ATOM EGOYAN
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ... MARTIN LUTHER
I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. DAVID CHANG
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will ... BENJAMIN BRATT As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a...
RAFE SPALL If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach...
BILL NUNN
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore.... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can...
DENISE VAN OUTEN
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. SAM WATERSTON You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that ar...
SAFFRON BURROWS Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult...
JEFF WEINER Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could ...
GLENN DANZIG That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
DAMIAN LEWIS
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just pr... PARIS HILTON
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t... VANESSA HUDGENS
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize th... COREY HAWKINS The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't reall... PATRICK MACNEE As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.&#...
YAEL GROBGLAS For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you sho...
FRED DURST Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think...
KATE ASHFIELD If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the mos...
JAVIER BARDEM
I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't ... BEHATI PRINSLOO I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER
I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman. ARJUN KAPOOR I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the T...
MORGAN SPURLOCK The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing...
CHAD KELLY
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I&... MARTIN SCORSESE Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a w...
IKE BARINHOLTZ I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d...
CHUCK CLOSE My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely differ...
EDDIE MARSAN You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity ...
TAGG ROMNEY Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but...
ELIZABETH MITCHELL
If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't mat... CHRIS NOTH Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that...
VAL GUEST
You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. DAVID THEWLIS Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have ...
DULE HILL As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always wan...
ANEURIN BARNARD
7 Rules to a Happy Life:1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
IAN SOMERHALDER
Kids do their own thing. We let them be real kids. You get an immediate response - if they don't... GLOZELL I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too ...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own m... ALBERT BROOKS The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all a...
BOBBY FARRELLY
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn&... ALAN STERN
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL
You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor,... DAVID L. WOLPER
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. HENRY FORD
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especial... AARON STANFORD
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co... GEORGE LOPEZ
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing. ANDY SERKIS If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn&...
ROELOF BOTHA I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to over...
YAHOO SERIOUS
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b... KEN ROBINSON I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know w...
CLAIRE FOY
One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo... JASON RITTER So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as...
PHIL HARTMAN I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t...
RANDY TRAVIS
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you cou... MARTIN SELIGMAN You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.
JAMIE DORNAN One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
FLAVOR FLAV I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.
CASEY NICHOLAW
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a...
ZAHI HAWASS If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a ...
ALFONSO RIBEIRO
'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing aroun... JONAH HILL Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha... 
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain... 
I am about as detailed as a shadow. 
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. 
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi... 
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. 
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. 
I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. 
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. 
The whole system of society tells you what to do. 
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