Ronald Reagan Quotes

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'

I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

The naked truth is still taboo.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

How could an actor become president?

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.