I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
-- Joss Whedon (on acting, Onion AV, Sep 5, 2001)

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese

I'll kiss anything. Guys, girls...dogs.
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar (as quoted in Total Film, 2002)

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
-- George Clooney (on Ocean's Eleven, Total Film, 2002)

The best research (for playing a drunk) is being a British actor for 20 years.
-- Michael Caine

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
-- Jack Nicholson

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
-- Donald Sinden (as quoted in Observer, Feb 12 1989)

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
-- Marlon Brando

An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
-- Marlon Brando (as quoted in Observer - 1956)