Cary Elwes Quotes

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

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

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

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

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

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

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

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

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

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

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 as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

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

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.

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.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

I like to have a good experience. That's all you have.

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.

New York has the best tap water.

I take away something from every role.

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

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

I grew up in the art world.

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

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.