Jeremy Irons Quote

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Sam Mendes

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

Martin Scorsese

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Calista Flockhart

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

Antonio Banderas

• Artist

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

Juliette Binoche

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

Laura Dern

• Actress

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

Naomi Campbell

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Janet Jackson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Self-discovery
• World

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.

Enrico Fermi

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

Elia Kazan

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

• Self-discovery

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

• Reality
• Imagination

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Cameron Diaz

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Thomas Kempis

• Truth

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

• Truth

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Kevin Costner