Steve Guttenberg Quotes

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.