Cary Elwes Quotes

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

Waiting for Godot

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

The Princess Bride nights at the Alamo Drafthouse cinemas, a national restaurant/movie house, have become so popular that they now produce their own licensed Princess Bride wine.

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.

Mandy swears that barely a day goes by that he isn't asked by someone, somewhere, to recite Inigo Montoya's most famous words, in which he vows vengeance on behalf of his father. "And I never let them down," he says.

We had a really fun time working together on the film. With myself as a pirate. And she as a fair maiden. Running off together in the spirit of love and adventure.

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.

I wondered if Bill Goldman had ever experienced the same giant rats I had encountered while living in Manhattan - the ones the size of cats, that make you freeze in your tracks. The kind that are not afraid of human beings and carry themselves with that swagger and give you that look that seems to imply, "Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?

The Academy of the Sword (1630) by the Flemish master Gerard Thibault d

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

The Black Pirate,

like a good wine without iocane powder, it seems to get better with time.

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, The Prisoner of Zenda, Scaramouche,

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

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.

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

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.

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.

I take away something from every role.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

a veritable symphony of gastric distress that roared for more than several seconds and shook the very foundations of the wood and plaster set we were now grabbing on to out of sheer fear.

The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk,

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.