Movie Actors Quotes

• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

  Lauren Bacall

  Talking, Acting, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

  Bram Stoker

  Movie, Children, Halloween

  Dracula ch. 2 (1897)

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• There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.

  Keanu Reeves

  Writing, Character, Opportunity

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• Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, Trying

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Mean, Long, Hollywood

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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• Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

  Michael Caine

  Listening, Actors, Crafts

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.69, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

  Jean Kerr

  People, Acting, Ordinary

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.74, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

  Graydon Carter

  Actors, Milk, Actresses

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• I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

  Lyle Lovett

  Actors, Danger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  Gary Sinise

  Jobs, Hollywood, Actors

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• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Theatre, Actors

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• The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Two, Waiting, Actors

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• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  Sam Mendes

  Skills, People, Actors

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• Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Law, Actors

  Stephen King (2003). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Land, California

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.

  Ramon Novarro

  Girl, Hero, Men

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