Gene Wilder

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
Gene Wilder

And in 'Frisco Kid' and in 'The Woman in Red' I had to ride badly. Then you have to really ride well in order to ride badly.
Gene Wilder

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
Gene Wilder

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Gene Wilder

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
Gene Wilder

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
Gene Wilder

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
Gene Wilder

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
Gene Wilder

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Gene Wilder

I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
Gene Wilder

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder

Mel Brooks

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks

Richard Dreyfuss

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
Richard Dreyfuss

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
Richard Dreyfuss

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Richard Dreyfuss

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.
Richard Dreyfuss

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
Richard Dreyfuss

Bo Derek

"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Michael Landon

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
Michael Landon

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Michael Landon

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
Michael Landon

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
Michael Landon

I believe that there is God in all of us.
Michael Landon

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
Michael Landon

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.
Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.
Michael Landon

I think all of us create our own miracles.
Michael Landon

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.
Michael Landon

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.
Michael Landon

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
Michael Landon

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.
Michael Landon

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!
Michael Landon

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
Michael Landon

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.
Michael Landon

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
Michael Landon

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
Michael Landon

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.
Michael Landon

Steven Spielberg

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
Steven Spielberg

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
Steven Spielberg

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Steven Spielberg

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg

I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
Steven Spielberg

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
Steven Spielberg

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Steven Spielberg

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Steven Spielberg

I'm not really interested in making money.
Steven Spielberg

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Steven Spielberg

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Steven Spielberg

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

Linda Blair (The Exorcist)

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
Linda Blair

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
Linda Blair

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
Linda Blair

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
Linda Blair

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
Linda Blair

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Linda Blair

The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.
Linda Blair

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.
Linda Blair

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
Linda Blair

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview.
Linda Blair

"Pea soup for the tortured soul? (That's what SFX people used when actress Linda Blair, possessed by the devil, vomited forth green hideousness.)" ~People Magazine

Total Gross: $357.6 million