Day 100/100

Day 100/100

FINAL DAY

"If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence." - Luis Bunuel

Thank you for reading all of these quotes, and I truly hope they inspire you in your filmmaking ventures! - Tom Malloy

Day 99/100

Day 99/100:

"The more you reason, the less you create." - Raymond Chandler

Day 98/100

Day 98/100:

"Don't take life too seriously.  You'll never get out alive." - Bugs Bunny

Day 97/100

Day 97/100:

"Too many people grow up.  That's the real trouble with the world.  Too many people grow up.  They forget.  They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old.  They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I don't do that." - Walt Disney

Day 96/100

FINAL WEEK OF QUOTES

Day 96/100:

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore

Day 95/100

Day 95/100:

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns

Day 94/100

Day 94/100:

"Old age is like everything else.  To make a success of it, you've got to start young." - Fred Astaire

Day 93/100

Day 93/100:

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels." - Groucho Marx

Day 92/100

Day 92/100:

"Sex appeal is 50 percent what you've got and 50% what you think you've got." - Sophia Loren

Day 91/100

This week... all quotes about AGE!

Day 91/100:

"Age is something that doesn't matter.  Unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke

Day 90/100

Day 90/100:

"Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before.  I don't even care if I was in the rest of the damn picture - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes." - Barbara Stanwyck

Day 89/100

Day 89/100:

"You never stop learning to act.  It isn't that kind of racket; you never have the thing licked." - Jimmy Stewart

Day 88/100

Day 88/100:

"I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business."   -Daniel Craig

Day 87/100

Day 87/100:

"Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21... The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain" - John Cassavetes

Day 86/100

Day 86/100:

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them." - Arthur Erickson 

Day 85/100

Day 85/100:

"(As an actor), you're giving people little tiny pieces of time they'll never forget." - Jimmy Stewart

Day 84/100

Day 84/100:

"The real actor, like the artist, has a direct line to the creative heart." - Bette Davis

Day 83/100

Day 83/100:

"The more fully I grasp not just how a character behaves, but why he behaves, the more I find that my patience with people and my understanding of them grows.  I seldom get mad." -Jack Lemmon

Day 82/100

Day 82/100:

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water." - Robert Bresson

Day 81/100

Day 81/100:

"I don't try to guess what a million people will like.  It's hard enough to know what I like." - John Huston

Day 80/100:

"I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary." - Werner Herzog

Day 79/100:

"Living at risk is jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury

Day 78/100:

"I prefer to be like a gambler; if you don't throw, you'll never know." - Robert DeNiro

Day 77/100:

"Love the craft, the practice of your art... in other words, being on the plateau... and the peaks will come." - Dennis Palumbo

Day 76/100:

"Fear makes you run one way.  Courage makes you run the other." - John Huston

Day 75/100:

"The oddest thing about this whole funny business is that the public really wants to laugh, but it's the hardest thing to make them do it.  They don't want to cry, yet they will cry at the slightest provocation." - Harry Langdon

Day 74/100:

"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin

Day 73/100:

"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast." - Groucho Marx

Day 72/100:

"Laughter is much more important than applause.  Applause is almost like a duty.  Laughter is a reward.  Laughter means they trust and like you." - Carol Channing

THIS WEEK: All quotes specifically about COMEDY.

Day 71/100:

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

Day 70/100:

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it is his dedication." - Marlon Brando

Day 69/100:

"If you give audiences a chance, they'll do half the acting for you." - Katharine Hepburn

Day 68/100:

"Just be truthful.  And if you can fake that, you've got it made." - Barbara Stanwyck

Day 67/100:

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next." - Nora Ephron

Day 66/100:

"My agent said: 'You aren't good enough for movies.'  I said, 'You're fired.'" - Sally Field

Day 65/100:

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

Day 64/100:

GREAT ADVICE TO ALL YOU WRITERS OUT THERE:

"We should never expect that word for word our movies will make it to the screen, because they won't... {But} if, when they walk out of the theater, they understand what was in your heart when you originally wrote the script, then you've succeeded." - Jane Anderson

Day 63/100:

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."  - Robert Benchly

Day 62/100:

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." - Bette Davis

Day 61/100:

"I leave myself out of my films, and yet I'm in every frame." - Ken Burns

Day 60/100:

"What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in a room with all these people that have inspired you from childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life." - Octavia Spencer

Day 59/100:

"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart." - George A. Romero

Day 58/100:

"The film industry is about saying "no" to people.  And you inherently cannot take "no" for an answer." - James Cameron

Day 57/100:

"You know how I'm smart?  I got people around me who know more than I do." - Louis B. Mayer

Day 56/100:

"I remember that someone once said that the whole thing is to keep working, and pretty soon they'll think you're good." - Jack Nicholson

Day 55/100:

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life." - Samuel Goldwyn

Day 54/100:

"Good films can only be made by a crew of dedicated maniacs." - Sir David Lean

Day 53/100:

"I am more important than my problems."  - Jose Ferrer

Day 52/100:

"The only time in my life when I've cleaned the oven is when I'm writing.  My house is never cleaner than when I'm writing." - Chris Noonan

Day 51/100:

"It takes a long time to learn simplicity." - Louis Malle

Day 50/100 - Half Way Mark!

One of my favorite quotes of all time...

"If your concentration is total and your performance is truthful, you can lean back and the camera will catch you every time; it will never let you fail." - Michael Caine

Day 49/100:

"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important that knowing what you can do.  In fact, that's good taste."  - Lucille Ball

Day 48/100:

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katherine Hepburn

Day 47/100:

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater." - Roman Polanski

Day 46/100:

"Talent is the least important thing a performer needs, but humility is the one thing he must have." - Clark Gable

Day 45/100:

"I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity." - Gilda Radner

Day 44/100:

"Slow down and enjoy life.  It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast... you also miss the sense of where you're going and why." - Eddie Cantor

Day 43/100:

"This, I believe, is one recipe for happiness; to work people you love and who love you." - Jean Renoir

Day 42/100:

"You are not punished for your anger; you're punished by your anger... There's not some moment when you're going to be called to task because you've been angry, but your anger itself is what punishes you, limits your life, restricts you."  - Meg Ryan

Day 41/100:

"You can't go around the theaters handing out cards saying, "It isn't my fault."  You go on to the next one." - John Sturges

Day 40/100:

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."  - Elizabeth Taylor

Day 39/100:

"If you believe in idea, you don't own it.  It owns you." - Raymond Chandler

Day 38/100:

"Our business is both strange and unique.  A business of starlight and glamour - one moment a place of dreams, the next of nightmares."  - Christopher Lee

Day 37/100:

"What you get is a living.  What you give is a life."  - D.W. Griffith

Day 36/100:

"You have to get lucky at some point, but you can only get lucky if you are still on the road, and for each of us, that road, that journey, is of a different length.  The thing is to keep doing it and doing it, any way you can." - Lawrence Kasdan

Day 35/100:

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person.  Or he became me." - Cary Grant

Day 34/100:

"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor

Day 33/100:

"Listen to everybody.  Don't believe anybody."  - Henry Jaglom

Day 32/100:

"Humility and questioning go hand in hand.  Humility isn't something you make up.  It's... coming up against the great unknown and admitting you just don't know." - Sam Shepard

Day 31/100:

"I don't know anything about luck.  I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do.  Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."  - Lucille Ball

Day 30/100:

"If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art.  Think of it as work... it's hard physical work.  You keep saying, "No, that's wrong, I can do it better."  You have an original, fresh concept; you want to fulfill it as precisely and as completely as you can, and in the effort to achieve that, the constant self-demand is, in essence, what art is." - Paddy Chayevsky

Day 29/100:

"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy.  Which is what life is." - Jack Lemmon

Day 28/100:

"Listening is essential in writing and it takes a lot of practice.  It's not just listening with the ear, but it's that inner sort of listening.  It's like listening to yourself think when you're driving long distances through the night, or listening to yourself play an instrument."  - Sam Shepard

Day 27/100:

"Each writer is born with a repertory company is his head.  As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them." - Gore Vidal

Day 26/100:

This week: All Quotes Specifically about WRITING

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music.  If you are born knowing them, fine.  If not, learn them.  Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."  - Truman Capote

Day 25/100:

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.  When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."  - Sophia Loren

Day 24/100:

"There's never any talent without a little strain of madness." - Jean-Louis Trinitgnant

Day 23/100:

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."  - Walt Disney

Day 22/100:

"It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.” - Dave Foley

Day 21/100:

"In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business." - Brett Ratner

Day 20/100:

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” - Meryl Streep

Day 19/100:

"I always tell the truth.  Even when I lie." - Al Pacino

Day 18/100:

"The art of acting is not to act.  Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact, is bad acting." - Anthony Hopkins

Day 17/100:

"I think that's our job.  To be expressive and daring and go out on a limb. Everybody should live as big and as authentically as they can."  - Geena Davis

Day 16/100:

THIS WEEK: All quotes specifically about Acting.

"All good actors work the same way.  They just stand there on their own two feet and tell the truth."  - James Woods.

Day 15/100:

"Every actor in his heart believe everything bad that's printed about him." - Orson Welles

Day 14/100:

"Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me.  Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath." - Michael Caine

Day 13/100:

"There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them."  - Tony Randall

Day 12/100:

"How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight" - Lana Turner

Day 11/100:

"If you're going to take a job to live on, make sure it's a job that is impossible for you, just really unpleasant.  That way, you won't ever get seduced into thinking, "Gee, I really want to park cars all my life."  That helps keep you on track.  If you hate what you're doing every day, it reminds you of what you want to do." - Lawrence Kasdan

Day 10/100:

"If a man does not know what is impossible, he will do it." - Mike Todd

Day 9/100:

"So what if my telephone is turned off again at home?  Or my electricity is shut off?  Or my credit cards cancelled?  If you don't bet, you don't have a chance to win.  It's so silly in life not to pursue the highest possible thing you can imagine, even if you run the risk of losing it all, because if you don't pursue it, you've lost it anyway.  You can't be an artist and be safe."  - Francis Ford Coppola

Day 8/100:

"I've never been poor, only broke.  Being poor is a frame of mind.  Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd

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Day 7/100:

"Don't think.  Thinking is the enemy of creativity.  It's self conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.  You can't try to do things.  You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury

Day 6/100:

"The art of acting is not to act.  Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact, is bad acting."  - Anthony Hopkins

Day 5/100:

"I never learned as much in the classroom as I did staring out a window and imagining things." - Robert Redford

Day 4/100:

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve

Day 3/100:

"Every wonderful thing we want to do in our lives is already in us.  We just gotta find it.  There's nothing we're ever going to do that we can't do right now." - Jon Turtletaub

Day 2/100:

"Success is always someone else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself." - Jack Lemmon

Day 1/100: (One of my favorite quotes of all time to start):

"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret.  Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."  - Charlie Chaplin

actortommalloy.blogspot.com

Hello, all!  Never had a blog before, but I figured now is the time to start.  It took me a while to figure out what this blog would be for.  I created the site and the layout, then let it go.  I wanted to let it sit there and have the idea for my blog come to me through the universe.

And it did!

Over the years I've collected various quotes about acting, writing, directing, producing and filmmaking.  These quotes I collected were to give me inspiration and lift me up when I was feeling down, or the crushing weight of the film business was too much to bear.  

I thought to myself, what if I could post one quote a day, so my friends and co-workers in the film business could be inspired, uplifted, and motivated as well!  I counted all my quotes, and I found 86 of them in my files.  86 approved by me!  I'm guessing I can find 14 more in the 3-4 month period it will take to post all the quotes... bringing it up to an even 100 days of inspiration!

Starting on March 4th, I will post a quote a day, for 100 days.  If you're inspired, share the quotes with your friends, or, better yet, share the blog address!  But no matter what, I hope at least one quote gives you the motivation they've all given me...

Best regards,

Tom Malloy
www.tommalloy.com