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Steve Guttenberg
American
Actor
About the author
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.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#People
#Actors
#Inspiring
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Money
#Jobs
#Parents
#Lie
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Man
#Friends
#Gay
Directing is a tremendous art.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Art
Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Film
#Fun
#Terror
Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Career
You can tell when you're in a hit.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Machines
#Xerox
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.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#People
#Support
#Reason
#Artists
No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Life
Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#English
#Trying
#states
#United
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Smiles
Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Drama
In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Water
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.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Food
#Pretty
#Actor
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Actors
You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Chance
#Friends
#Friend
#Meetings
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#People
#Attention
#Name
I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Work
Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Skin
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Actors
I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Love
#Power
#Money
#Fame
I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Business
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Bragging
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.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Pretty
I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#World
#Actor
For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Building
#Years
#Movies
I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Popular
#Culture
I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#Want
#Deep
I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.
Steve Guttenberg,
American
Actor
#People
#Money