Agnes Repplier Quotes

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

The Supreme Court is never very far from public opinion.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.