Quotes About Actor

Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney.

James Spader is a good actor.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

I'd have loved to play James Bond in the movie series.

I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called 'Safe.' I played the main bad guy in that.

I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.

I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.

If you lost a major actor because of a broken jaw, the project collapses.

I loved the films of Jean Gabin.

I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.'

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

I really like Jim Carrey.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.