A lot of actors flame out.
‐‐ George Hamilton
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
‐‐ Michael Douglas
A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.
‐‐ Craig Bierko
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
‐‐ Gary Cole
A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
‐‐ Donna Mills
A lot of actors look at scripts and think, 'How will this stretch me as an actor?' But I always thought, 'Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?'
‐‐ Hugh Grant
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
‐‐ John Travolta
A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
‐‐ Richard Widmark
A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
‐‐ Tony Scott
A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.
‐‐ Meat Loaf
A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart
A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.
‐‐ Genie Francis
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver
A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.
‐‐ Victor Spinetti
A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset
A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.
‐‐ Tom Ellis
A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they've been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they're in, but to point out to the producers out there, 'Hey, look what I've got - remember me for your next project.'
‐‐ Caroline Goodall
A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.
‐‐ Jane Seymour
A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian
A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it's kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the '60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld
A lot of airlines have come and gone.
‐‐ David Neeleman
A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
‐‐ Fuzzy Zoeller
A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
‐‐ Jeff Hawkins
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
‐‐ Norman Jewison
A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
‐‐ Caroline Winberg
A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe the only reason the Chinese economy is surging is because the West wants cheap goods and China knows how to make them that way.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy
A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
‐‐ Lazaro Hernandez
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
‐‐ Narada Michael Walden
A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get a video made. You're not going to probably get much tour support. You're not going to get promotion. You're certainly not going to get a publicist who's going to pay much attention to you.
‐‐ Ann Powers
A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.
‐‐ Betty Parsons
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
‐‐ Al Yankovic
A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
‐‐ Holly Near
A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.
‐‐ DMX
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
‐‐ David Lynch
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson
A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
‐‐ Tom Robbins
A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
‐‐ Andy Murray
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
‐‐ Robert Reich
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.
‐‐ Kristen Connolly
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
‐‐ Patrick deWitt
A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
‐‐ Ben Lovett