“Joey: 'Just because she went to Yale drama, she thinks she’s like the greatest actress since, since, sliced bread!' Chandler: 'Ah, Sliced Bread, a wonderful Lady MacBeth.'”— Chandler Bing, Joey Tribbiani, amazon.com
“Well, I’m sorry if I’m not a middle-aged black woman. And I’m also sorry if sometimes I go to the wrong audition.”— Joey Tribbiani, amazon.com
“You're fooled by the applause into thinking that they love me, they really, really love me. Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do.”— Gene Wilder, newsweek.com
“I think to be believed, onstage or on screen, is the one hope that all actors share.”— Gene Wilder, nytimes.com
“Whenever you finish a character there's a sense of decompression and melancholy, where for a period of time you miss having been these other people. With Jimmy Bulger I had a similar thing, because you are these people for more hours in a day than you are yourself. There is always that period of say…”— Johnny Depp, telegraph.co.uk
“Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow.”— Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“What's Chester got up his sleeve in tonight's American Horror Story? My guess is it's not good. And I should know, I filmed it.”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com
“This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”— Judd Nelson, m.imdb.com