Cary Elwes Quotes
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I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
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I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.
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I take away something from every role.
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My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
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I grew up in the art world.
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The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
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Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.
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I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
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The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.
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When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
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I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.
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If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
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No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. All have particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
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I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
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My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.
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I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.
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I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.
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The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
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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.
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There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
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I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.