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Character Actor Inspirational Quotes (9040)

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By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
Ronald Reagan
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
Sylvester Stallone
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Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.
Jeff Goldblum
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I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.
Shirley MacLaine
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I shot Footloose nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
Dianne Wiest
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Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.
Eli Wallach
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We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow
Ronald Reagan
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There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
Michael Keaton
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You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.
Kathy Bates
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I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.
Mickey Rourke
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I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.
Dianne Wiest
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, You will never get the girl at the end. So I worked on my acting.
Van Heflin
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Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Anne Bancroft
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Anne Bancroft
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There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
Anne Bancroft
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If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
Anne Bancroft
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The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.
Anne Bancroft
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Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.
Anne Bancroft
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The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
Anne Bancroft
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Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Anne Bancroft
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I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
Anne Bancroft
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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
Anne Bancroft
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