21 Kevin Kline Quotes

Kevin Kline quotes

1. It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

2. Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

3. Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

4. I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.

5. I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence.

6. I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

7. Don't call me stupid!

1. I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.

2. People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

3. I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

4. I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

5. I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

6. But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.

7. I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

8. Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

9. I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

10. Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

11. You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

12. I'm a real pushover for animals.

13. Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.

14. Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.