Alec Guinness

“Flamboyance doesn’t suit me. I enjoy being elusive.”

Oliver Reed

“I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.”

Christopher Lee

“I haven’t spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.”

Sean Connery

“More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”

Dirk Bogarde

“Cinema is just a form of masturbation.”

Anjelica Huston

“I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.”

Anna Magnani

“Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”

Anne Wiazemsky

Marlon Brando

“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.”

Monica Vitti

“I owe my courage to Michelangelo’s [Antonioni] attention. I owe my strength to his confidence.”

Paul Newman

“The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.”

Isabelle Adjani

“If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.”

Gary Oldman

“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.”

Jimi Hendrix

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. ”

David Attenborough

“As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world . . . which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.”

Michel Simon

David Bowie

“Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.”

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”

Bruno S.

“I have my pride, and I can think, and my thinking is clever.”

Grace Kelly

“I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.”

Klaus Kinski

“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. ”

Jeremy Irons

“I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.”

Toshirô Mifune

Of Akira Kurosawa: "I am proud of nothing I have done other than with him."

Max von Sydow

“I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.”

John Wayne

“I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.”

Henry Fonda

“If there is something in my eyes, a kind of honesty in the face, then I guess you could say that’s the man I’d like to be, the man I want to be.”

Jeff Bridges

“When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.”

The Mars Volta

Anatoli Solonitsyn

“Anatoli Solonitsyn was a born film actor, highly strung and suggestible. It was so easy to infect him with emotions, to achieve the right mood.” [Andrei Tarkovsky]

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