Bob Hope Quotes

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Seth moved behind me, his presence steady and reassuring. Waiting to catch me, even though I refused to fall just yet.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

I gut check my show. I say, I say, "Gut, gut, does that feel true to you?" And Gut says, "Yes it does, Stephen. Let's get a grilled cheese sandwich."

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.