“I cried when I did my costume fitting. I saw the shoes lined up and the tweed skirts and the sweaters. I said, ‘I can’t do this.’ But I grew to love it. You have to allow yourself to grow older in front of the camera – you have to not fight it. Her complete lack of vanity was a comfortable place to be as a woman … It’s a mark of a huge ego.”
Helen Mirren in the New Yorker
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“I’ve never really been an awards guy … I tell my wife all the time that I’m more of a mall guy. When I walk into the King of Prussia mall on Saturday afternoon, if they don’t shut it down, then I feel like I’m slipping. That’s how I measure success – if they still have to shut down the mall, I’m doing all right.”
Will Smith in New York City to promote “The Pursuit of Happyness”
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“I’m not old enough to date. (I’m taking) my parents and my Curious George.
10-year-old Abigail Breslin
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“Idi Amin was the kind of man who came into a room and swallowed it. That was something I needed to work on, to understand how to come into and own the space the way he did.”
Forest Whitaker on NPR
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“I remembered we had that little camera, and so I made my first little movie. It was about a monster that crawls out of the toilet in a high school, takes a look around and then decides to go back in the toilet. Already certain themes are there: that it’s a lot better underground than it is up here.”
“Pan’s Labyrinth” writer-director Guillermo Del Toro in The New York Times
