Gene Siskel Quotes

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

I've always wanted to do acting. The biggest thing I ever did was 'The Dirty Dozen.' My contract was for three months, but the picture was taking longer to make than they thought it would. I stayed for seven months, and Frank Sinatra told me to leave. He said the public is very fickle and that they'll forget you.

'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.

I had a Taco Bell audition where I had to wear a huge sombrero and walk around like an idiot. I got call-backs for the movie 'Twister,' did small independent stuff that I won't name. But it led to all my breakthrough moments on 'Entourage.'

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

I love the 'Percy Jackson' movies. That was my big break. I love the people I worked with. It was a really magical experience for me.

I've only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

When I first moved from Chicago to L.A., I starred in the 'Vacation' movies as Audrey Griswald, and that was like the starring role in a Warner Brothers movie. I thought everything was made, and then six months later, I'm back auditioning.

Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.

'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

I was watching Burt Reynolds movies when I was a kid, going, 'That's what I want to do.'

I love Mel Gibson... I'd like to ask him for a job.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

I actually never wanted to be a VJ. Never. It just so happened that I became a VJ, and I was actually kind of like, 'I don't want to be a VJ. I want to be in the movies.' So yeah, I always wanted to be an actor.