Peter Bogdanovich Quotes

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

Brando's one of the greats; what can you say?

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.

I was watching Burt Reynolds movies when I was a kid, going, 'That's what I want to do.'

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.