Mark Hamill Quotes

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.

Art is alive because it is mortal.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

a poet never feels useful.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

I am not a juicy painter.