#met

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana. ↗

— Charles Durning

#banana #because #better #blame #carry

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#guys #his #i #like #marking

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.' ↗

— Fred Durst

#base #core #different #everybody #expects

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#feel #i #i feel #i love #love

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#before #done #film #full #given

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#cast #character #directors #doing #forward

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.' ↗

— Robert Duvall

#directors #hey #hire #hired #how

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#almost #always #constant #down #like

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#goes #great #hollywood #horton #interior

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#guns #hell #houston #just #owns