Quote by John Candy (about Actors)

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

Actors

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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

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The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

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Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

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I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

John Candy

Elwood: "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
Jake: "Hit it!"

Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers

Sunglasses

Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.

Cop in The Blues Brothers

Elwood: "What kind of music do you usually have here?"
Claire: "Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western."

Claire in The Blues Brothers

Remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there're still some things that makes us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody.

Elwood Blues in The Blues Brothers

Jake: "Got any fried chicken?"
Mrs. Murphy: "Best damn chicken in the state."
Jake: "Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke."
Mrs. Murphy: "You want chicken wings or chicken legs?"
Jake: "Four fried chickens and a Coke!"

Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers

We're on a mission from God.

The Blues Brothers

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers

We're putting the band back together.

Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers

You can be too old for a lot of things, but you're never too old to be afraid.

Old Man Marley in Home Alone

How can you give Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What's next, rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?

Home Alone

Waiter: "Two scoops of ice cream, sir?"
Kevin: "Two? Make it three. I'm not driving."

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone - 2: Lost in New York

Ice Cream

Bless this highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese dinner and the people who sold it on sale. Amen.

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone

Pasta

Marv: "He's a kid. Kids are stupid. I know I was."
Harry: "You still are, Marv."

Harry Lime in Home Alone

I can't go in there 'cause Uncle Frank's taking a shower. He says if I walked in there and saw him naked, I'd grow up never feeling like a real man.

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone - 2: Lost in New York

Penisses Shower Uncles & Aunties

Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back.

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone

Guys, I'm eating junk and watching rubbish. You better come out and stop me!

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone

The hospital needs it more than I do. Besides, I'm probably gonna spend it on stuff that'll rot my teeth and my mind.

Kevin McCallister in Home Alone - 2: Lost in New York

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

Actors

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

Laughing & Smile

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

Fear

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

Men & Women

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Books Reading

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Life Desire

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

Failures & Mistakes

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

The Kardashians

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Al Pacino

Heart Eyes

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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