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Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.
Oct 2, 2025
I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.
Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.
It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'
Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.
It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
You can't handle the truth!
May the Force be with you.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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