Walter Matthau Quotes

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

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!

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

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

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

Gambling is the only addiction that the government promotes.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

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

A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.

When I first dreamt of becoming a movie star, I wanted to be a Gary Cooper: I wanted to be rich and famous, living in palaces and wearing dark glasses and white suits.

I have grown up watching films like 'Striptease' and 'Ghost,' and here I was in the same frame as the gorgeous Demi Moore.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

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

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.