I`ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I`m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
(On fans) "More odd than daunting. And worship is possibly too strong a word or perhaps I am a little afraid to acknowledge that. It is also very flattering & pleasing.."
Adam Garcia
On paper, "Once Upon a Mattress" looked good. Sarah Jessica Parker and the director and the designers -- everyone involved was reputable and had had huge successes in the past. What`s odd to me is that I could tell from the first day of rehearsal that it ...
Jane Krakowski
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That`s why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there`s a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it`s really not bad.
John Corbett
[on his role in Paris, Texas (1984)] The whole film evolved on a very organic level. It almost had a documentary feel to it. It wasn`t odd to be in the lead, I took the same approach as I would to any other part. I play myself as totally as I possibly can...
Harry Stanton
[On watching himself act]: It was odd because I hadn`t seen much of what we had done until I saw it all put together up there. So, I`m watching everybody, but I care mostly about me [laughs]. So, I`m watching and thinking, "Good, Jeff. That`s nice, Jeff. ...
Jeff Goldblum
[On people comparing him to "Oscar Madison" from "The Odd Couple" (1970)]: People think I`m like Oscar. When they find out I`m not, they seem disappointed.
Jack Klugman
It`s not really what I`d call a movie. I was stunned that Miramax wanted to buy it. I mean it`s really rude. It showed me in a really bad light. It`s also shoddily made. It`s cobbled together. -- expressing surprise that a low-budget documentary of his ba...
Russell Crowe
I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it`s odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It`s a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.
Juliet Landau
Acting`s an odd profession for a young person; it`s so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there`s nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you`re not act...
Michelle Pfeiffer
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality. The Odd Couple (1968) was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
Walter Matthau
[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I`m actually not that worried. I wouldn`t give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You`re going to have people in the corners of garages making carto...
Hayao Miyazaki
Until Frankie [Dear Frankie (2004)], I didn`t realise that feeling part of a film was about staying up late, getting drunk, smoking and all that. And I wasn`t doing it, obviously; or if I did, I felt racked with guilt about it. That was odd. It felt much ...
Emily Mortimer
I`m almost hysterical at the thought of making people cry with joy 30-odd years after Cary [Grant] and I did our stuff. I`ve certainly shed tears at "An Affair to Remember", even though I know all the tricks of movie magic that went into it. Believe me, C...
Deborah Kerr
(On being a Child Star) There were the odd bullies and stuff and I was called `Kraft Dinner Kid` for the last two, three years of my elementary school but it was okay, I didn`t mind it, I really was proud and loved what I was doing. Had I been ashamed of ...
Corey Sevier
I go into movies thinking, we`re performing, but with interviews, we`re pretending to be completely real. I just can`t get my head around it. And the things we say in this hour could permanently shape our personas. I mean, tell me that`s not a little odd!...
Joaquin Phoenix
Generally, when I get offered these roles they`re twisted or odd. It`s never a straight-up romance. Like, the character can`t speak or they turn out to be a serial killer.
Paul Giamatti
Artists need to be outsiders in order to really view what`s going on. That little bit of detachment has been great for me being down here. I look like everyone else; I almost sound like everyone else, except for the odd time I say chesterfield or serviett...
Paul Haggis
Sometimes I receive strange letters, and occasionally people come up to me in the street and say odd things. They want to be deceived, so it is difficult to disabuse them. At times it is tiring not to be allowed to be a private person. If you are really m...
Max Sydow
[on being a gay icon] I don`t know. I`m sort of aware that I am. But I`m that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other hand, having grandmas and parents being grateful I`m around to be a babysitter for their kids. And I`ve never...
Julie Andrews
I did the odd bit of theater from the age of ten, but I spent most of my time doing the usual teenage things - you know, thinking I was black, trying to break dance and smoking a lot of dope.
Sam Rockwell
Acting to mid-air is odd. There`s a perverse pleasure to it when you get it right, but often you don`t. Aliens are really hard. On the second one [Star Wars: Episode II] I was doing the scene with those tall ones - actually, I quite fancied the female one...
Ewan McGregor
I am not saying it is a bad movie or good movie, but it is an odd movie. All of the music was written before Terry would edit a scene. That was just how he wanted to work. It was a very odd way of working for me, because I had to lead the charge up the hi...
Hans Zimmer
I am not saying it is a bad movie or good movie, but it is an odd movie. All of the music was written before Terry would edit a scene. That was just how he wanted to work. It was a very odd way of working for me, because I had to lead the charge up the hi...
Hans Zimmer
[1987 comment on John Huston] I kinda loved John. He was like a second father to me in many ways, which I know may sound odd considering I was 45 when I first worked with him, but when you had to say goodbye there was always this feeling of loss, that ter...
Albert Finney
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
