Jude Law

“When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.”

Hape Kerkeling

Tom Hardy

“You don't step on stage to eat, you go there to be eaten.”

Colin Farrell

“Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.”

Bruce Springsteen

“The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

Michelle Williams

“I was born with a fierce need for independence.”

Marlon Brando

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

Vanessa Paradis

Daniel Day-Lewis

“If I weren't allowed this outlet, there wouldn't be a place for me in society.”

Otto Sander

James Stewart

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”

Benedict Cumberbatch

“Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.”

Robert Carlyle

Vivien Leigh

“People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap”

Tennessee Williams

“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”

Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ”

Ryan Gosling

“I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.”

Jeremy Renner

“I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.”

Tom Wilkinson

Walt Disney

“I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing’ myself with obscure creative impressions.”

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.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.”

Ken Watanabe

“I’m not a big star in Japan. I’m an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn’t do that.”

Emily Blunt

“You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.”

Matt Damon

“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”

Robert Downey Jr.

“I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.”

Marion Cotillard

“I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother and then I worked with my father, who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and how to play with the emotions.”

Woody Harrelson

“I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.”

Hugh Jackman

“Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.”

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.”