#actors

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#death #family #friends #life #love

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#drive #goals #inspirational #inspirational

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#always #breath #character #character actors #come

All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed. ↗

— Seán O'Casey

#humorous-look-at-life #life

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#american actors #anybody #because #came #chance

The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#movies #movies

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#hollywood #movies #movies

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --' Hugh: 'Pained? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#movie-stars #movies #paparazzi #repartee #wit

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality