Brendan Fraser Quotes

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism ... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

I think you have to show homage to creators.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me.

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.