Elwes Actor Quotes & Sayings

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater. — Cary Elwes

You have to get serious about your practice! — Dharma Mittra

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel. — Adrienne Rich

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you really can't explain but that mean something anyway. People are completely transformed when they sing; people look like that when they sing or when they make love. But it's a weird thing - at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets. — Jeff Buckley

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime. — Cary Elwes

As women in general, I don't think we take the time to find ways to take care of ourselves. — Kim Raver

When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture that spirit. — Peter M. Senge

To be a human is to state the obvious — Matt Haig

That particular take was the one that ended up in the film. So when you see Westley fall to the ground and pass out, that's not acting. That's an overzealous actor actually losing consciousness. — Cary Elwes

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. — Lindsay Lohan

my brain started misbehaving, and — Jonathan Safran Foer

The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs. — Annia Ciezadlo

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it. — Cary Elwes