Dustin Hoffman Quote

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Jeremy Irons

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Atom Egoyan

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

Nicole Kidman

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

• People

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.

Emir Kusturica

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

Patricia Arquette

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Armand Assante

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Meg Ryan

• Change

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

• Self-discovery
• Morality

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Calvin Klein

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Owen Wilson

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Adriana Lima

• Self-discovery

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

James Joyce

• Courage

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.

Steven Soderbergh

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Milla Jovovich