Quotes from Brendan Fraser

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?