My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
[1983 comment on Francis Ford Coppola] Coppola`s talented. I`m pissed that he cut a scene that would have given the audience an insight into my character in "Apocalypse Now," but he`s talented.
Robert Duvall
Vierde man, De (1983) [["The Fourth Man"] has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion, Christianity is nothing more than one of many interpretations of reality, neither more nor less. Ideally, it would be nice to believe that there is a God somewh...
Paul Verhoeven
The versions of The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986) that you find on video carry my name, and they are the films that I made, but I hate the way they look on tape. Too bright.
David Cronenberg
I am the best bodyguard, because I`ll take a bullet, I`ll take a stab wound, I`ll take a hit upside the head; I`m like a Kamikaze pilot; The President got shot because his men relaxed. - Mr. T, in Sept. 1983 issue of Playboy
Mr. T
In ways I don`t like to admit, I`m a goof-up myself. It`s an essential part of my character. When these guys [his TV characters] screw up, it reminds me of my own incompetence with the small frustrations of life. (in a 1983 interview)
Tom Poston
(About auditioning for Fame and Fortune) "You have to think you`ll be one of the ones who makes it." (From Education Weekly, January 26, 1983--when he was a student of drama at the New York High School for the Performing Arts.)
Ron Eldard
I remember getting through high school and thinking, "Boy, I`m glad I got that behind me!" Then, when I was 19, I got Risky Business (1983), and I realized, "Ah, so this is life - it`s a little bigger than I thought!"
Tom Cruise
I am going to cry because this show has been as long as my career! I have wondered for 26 years what this would feel like! Thank you for terminating the suspense. (On accepting her Oscar in 1983]
I`m not unaware of how I`m perceived, I just don`t care ...
Shirley MacLaine
Oh boy, no matter how much you try to imagine what this is like, it`s just so incredibly thrilling right down your toes. [On winning the 1983 Best Actress Oscar for Sophie`s Choice (1982)].
Meryl Streep
It`s a little-known fact, but I wanted Han Solo to die at the end of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). I thought it would give more weight and resonance. But George Lucas wasn`t sympathetic. He didn`t want me killed by those teddy bear gu...
Harrison Ford
There`s not a day when somebody doesn`t smile and say, `Oh, you`re Agent 99.` I like being in a world that regards me in a friendly way. Interview with Toby Kahn, 1983.
Barbara Feldon
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`.
Barbra Streisand
These guys [his TV characters] are about a half-step behind life`s parade. The ink on their instruction sheets is beginning to fade. But they can function and cope, and don`t realize they are driving people up the walls. (in a 1983 interview)
Tom Poston
[his half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)] "How did I let them talk me into doing this scene? I should have asked for a stunt double."
Vic Morrow
After I had my first child, I stopped breastfeeding early because I had been told that there was a possibility that I might star in "The Thorn Birds" (1983) (mini), which I wanted more than life itself. I went to do the screen test and everything went gre...
Jane Seymour
You never have any control over what people write or what they think, but there is a sense of me as a working-class lad done very well. I don`t know where that comes from . . . It`s partly to do with One Summer" (1983), the first thing I ever did, which i...
David Morrissey
I`ll tell you something. And this is a fact. When I was doing Scarface (1983), I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day a...
Al Pacino
(Commenting on the death of his mother, who succumbed to cancer in 1983): "I thought my parents were invincible. It never occurred to me she would die."
Richard Karn
[from an interview three months before the release of Superman III (1983)] Look, I`ve flown, I`ve become evil, loved, stopped and turned the world backward, I`ve faced my peers, I`ve befriended children and small animals, and I`ve rescued cats from trees....
Christopher Reeve
When asked why in his mid-sixties he took on the arduous task of starring in an 18-hour mini-series "The Winds of War" (1983) (mini): "It promised a year of free lunches."
Robert Mitchum
Cinema`s death date was 31 September 1983, when the remote-control zapper was introduced to the living room, because now cinema has to be interactive, multi-media art.
Peter Greenaway
My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey
