Steve Guttenberg Quotes - Page 2

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• If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Looks, Progression, Smooth

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• Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Kind, All Kinds

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Regret, Thinking, People

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Long, Lucky, Actors

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• There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Years, Actors, Guilds

  "60 Seconds in Goot Heaven". www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2005.

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• The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Knives, Hollywood, Allure

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• Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Luxury

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Drama, Guy, Comedy

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• You can tell when you're in a hit.

  Steve Guttenberg

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Eye, Long, Bulls

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Believe, Opportunity, Way

  "Steve Guttenberg on Police Academy, Party Down, and turning down Sharknado". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2015.

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• Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Good Things, Known, Typecasting

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• Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Couple, Artist, People

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• A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Careers, New Job, Comeback

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• The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

  Steve Guttenberg

  Advice, Earth, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Skins

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Copying, Machines, Comedy

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• For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Years, Two, Three

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• From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Actors, Film, Genes

  "60 Seconds in Goot Heaven". www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2005.

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• I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fame

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• I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

  Steve Guttenberg

  Who Cares, Actors, World

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• I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Culture, Popular Culture

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Gay, Men, Gay Men

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Inspiring, Special People, Actors

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