Pily's Favorite Cast Members
Displaying all 26 cast members
Tilda Swinton
“I’m basically interested in identity, and I still find fascinating the question: How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people`s expectations for our identity?”
Vincent Cassel
“My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”
Robert De Niro
“I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.”
Natalie Portman
“I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.”
Joaquin Phoenix
“I never think that I'm good at anything I do. I can always do it better, I know my weakness. I've never been perfect.”
Cher
“I don’t like my voice that much. I think I’m a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at someone else’s house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.”
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.”
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.”
Jean Reno
“I grew up watching John Wayne, William Holden, Marlon Brando, while also mentioning French actors like Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet. I had space, liberty, that's American. And I had [black & white] stories in little streets, with a little music in the background, that's the French.”
Sophia Loren
“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
Sean Penn
“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.”
Samuel L. Jackson
“I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.”
Kathy Bates
“I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.”
Meryl Streep
“Sometimes under-preparation is very good, because it instills fear and fear is galvanizing. It makes you break out of yourself. If you're prepared, then you think you're ready, and if you think you're ready, then you're not ready.”
Javier Bardem
“Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.”
Penélope Cruz
“The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.”
Johnny Depp
“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.”
Nicole Kidman
“I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don’t think you ever abandon any of them.”
