Ru Freeman Quotes

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.

Insanity is coasting through life.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.