Born Quote by Alan Bennett

The first director I ever worked with on 'Thrones,' he had a big hand in casting me. He said he cast me because there…

— Richard Dormer

“No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a…

— Susan Marg

What would Ryan Lochte do? I'm gonna go with...men.

— Sara Underwood

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had…

— Jackie Cooper

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what…

— David Crosby

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said…

— Barry McGuigan

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the…

— Kenneth Cranham

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

— Robert Benchley

My dad was part of that generation with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, of working-class actors breaking through. They'd never had an actor in…

— Tom Burke

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What…

— Martina Navratilova

“Seriously. There were three of them, all roughly in their thirties, and they spent their time traveling the world, putting together documentaries about the…

— J. Maarten Troost