Nick's Favorite Cast Members
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Seymour Cassel
“Acting is as complicated as you make it and the more simple you make it, the better you’re going to be. If you take your time, have fun and enjoy what you’re doing, you’ll make it interesting for yourself, then the other actors pay attention and the words mean something now, because they mean something to you.”
Ben Gazzara
“It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John [Cassavetes] was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way. ”
James Caan
“People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them. ”
Richard Pryor
“Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.”
Klaus Kinski
“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. ”
Steve Guttenberg
“If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that’s what I did.”
John Candy
“I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.”
Robert Mitchum
“Sure I was glad to see John Wayne win the Oscar … I'm always glad to see the fat lady win the Cadillac on TV, too.”
Oliver Reed
“I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.”
Terence Stamp
“I work primarily for the camera – it’s not something I really talk about a lot, but it’s part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.”
Christopher Walken
“I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.”
Rita Hayworth
“Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.”
Greta Garbo
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.”
Donald Sutherland
“I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.”
Rock Hudson
“I have no philosophy about acting or anything else. You just do it. And I mean that. You just do it. However, I can say that with ease after thirty-five years.”
Shirley MacLaine
“I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.”
Jack Lemmon
“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
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.”
Gene Hackman
“I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.”
Cary Grant
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
Marlene Dietrich
“I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.”
