Nicholas Ray Quotes

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Constance Wu is so dedicated, Anna Kendrick is ridiculously funny, and Blake Lively is magnetic.

I think William H. Macy is the best actor in Hollywood.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people.

Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.