Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Related I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying. CHARLES DANCE Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is th... MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be compet... BOB MCNAIR I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in... GARY COLEMAN Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a sp... RAFE SPALL The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ... PATRICK DEMPSEY Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you'r... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. IRA GLASS When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH If you don't have any confidence, you're not going to do anything. STEFON DIGGS There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like wor... JANET JACKSON In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don'... BRAD WENSTRUP It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel... HELENA BONHAM CARTER Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language... K'NAAN I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have... BARBRA STREISAND I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... CARL REINER The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ... CONDOLA RASHAD It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It... HARMON KILLEBREW The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done thi... VICTORIA SMURFIT When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the... AGYNESS DEYN You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y... AMY SEDARIS I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you ... MAGGIE CAREY I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the ... MADONNA CICCONE We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don... DONALD TRUMP You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don... MACY GRAY I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. AL ALVAREZ You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th... VANESSA WILLIAMS I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you... JAMES CORDEN Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's somethi... DEREK JETER I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry beca... JIM HARRISON I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures.... JOSE MOURINHO In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody ... ROBERT OSBORNE You always have that danger when you do a pilot of getting this gigantic chunk of change, and all of... DAVID DENMAN When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO At some point, if you don't take care of the roads today, it's like any other maintenance is... MATT MEAD It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ... PETER FALK When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way o... VIGGO MORTENSEN I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it r... BRODY JENNER The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w... DAMON HILL The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have t... JACK BLACK The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends wh... AMANDA BYNES Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that... ALAN RICKMAN Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead o... RICHARD AVEDON Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object.... JENNETTE MCCURDY In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender,... CANDIS CAYNE Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in ... ADELAIDE KANE Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're go... AUDREY HEPBURN When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes f... DAVID O. RUSSELL When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly ... ELVIS MITCHELL Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don... CATHERINE HICKS But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. ... MILA KUNIS After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you&... AUDREY TAUTOU When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But w... FEFE DOBSON Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting i... ARI GRAYNOR If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think ... JOHN WELLS When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, th... BLAKE MYCOSKIE Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophisticati... CHEECH MARIN In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, ... NICK CAVE On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t... RICKIE FOWLER I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read s... JOHN HAWKES Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing... DAISY BERKOWITZ The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from... BRIAN ENO In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes a... BILL MURRAY My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you g... BYRON HOWARD When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, t... CARY FUKUNAGA Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're... TOM WATSON When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: ... OLIVIA WILLIAMS Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'... CHRIS CARTER You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don'... HARRY BROWNE I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the came... EVE BEST I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediat... PADMA LAKSHMI When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a differe... PHILIP ROTH If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't thi... JENNA USHKOWITZ Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is differ... TAYLOR SWIFT When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out... NEIL YOUNG I think the best time to approach a woman is actually after her workout. When you're working out... NIKKI BELLA You know when you become friends with someone, you don't even remember? When you weren't fri... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getti... GUS VAN SANT Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're... NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell... BILL NIGHY I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to exp... RACHEL KUSHNER I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and jus... ANNA SILK Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any! TAYLOR HICKS Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do... RIP TORN Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't... SUMMER GLAU After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everythin... METHOD MAN If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're discipline... TOM LANDRY It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when... ROBERT STRAUSS You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There&... JAMES BADGE DALE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ... CHRIS MARTIN Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony th... DANIEL BARENBOIM Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you'r... AARON TVEIT
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A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. JEAN RHYS I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. JEAN RHYS I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that w... MATTHEW RHYS I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it c... RHYS DARBY I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers... RHYS DARBY In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very ... MATTHEW RHYS As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then im... RHYS IFANS Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves ... RHYS IFANS Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable ... RHYS IFANS You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio... RHYS IFANS In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the ... RHYS IFANS When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical ... RHYS DARBY 'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy ... RHYS DARBY I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself... RHYS IFANS When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I... JEAN RHYS Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it w... JEAN RHYS As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant... JEAN RHYS These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me... JEAN RHYS Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hund... JEAN RHYS I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever. RHYS IFANS I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We nee... MATTHEW RHYS I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London... RHYS IFANS Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. JEAN RHYS I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't com... MATTHEW RHYS