Top 94 Quotes About Cassel
#1. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe
Holly Black
#2. We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.
Holly Black
#3. You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
Holly Black
#4. Sam: You know what I wish?
Cassel: What?
Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
Holly Black
#5. You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
Holly Black
#6. Can you really cook meth in a hotel coffeepot?" - Cassel
"Sure," Jones says, looking into his cup thoughtfully.
Guess Mom was right about one thing.
Holly Black
#7. You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
Holly Black
#8. There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
Natasha Lyonne
#9. I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Ira Sachs
#10. Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self.
Holly Black
#11. If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.
Seymour Cassel
#12. It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.
Seymour Cassel
#13. It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.
Vincent Cassel
#14. Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.
Vincent Cassel
#15. My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.
Seymour Cassel
#16. I didn't really want to die; I just wasn't ready to live. I was merely surviving ... one reluctant heartbeat at a time.
Wendi Cassel
#17. I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
Vincent Cassel
#19. Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.
Vincent Cassel
#20. I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Vincent Cassel
#21. The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
Vincent Cassel
#22. People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
Vincent Cassel
#23. I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.
Seymour Cassel
#24. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.
Vincent Cassel
#25. If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.
Vincent Cassel
#26. My grandma leaned out the backseat window, pointing at the cops. "Just so you know, I had no part in this! Ask anyone. They'll all tell you: I hate crime."
"Well, we won't mention to them how you 'forgot' to pay for those slippers at Wal-Mart, now, will we?" my mom hissed.
Emily Cassel
#27. My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Vincent Cassel
#29. It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.
After all, hell is supposed to be hot.
Holly Black
#31. With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.
Seymour Cassel
#32. I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says.
"No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
Holly Black
#33. When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.
Vincent Cassel
#34. I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
Vincent Cassel
#35. I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.
Vincent Cassel
#36. I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.
Vincent Cassel
#37. My grandma raised her eyes to the heavens, put her hand on her heart and sighed dramatically. "Dear God, one day let my family love me for my soul instead of my remarkably elegant possessions, my shoe box full of cash, and my outstanding high-interest-rate back account...
Emily Cassel
#38. I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.
Vincent Cassel
#39. Now that I've started touching her, I can't seem to stop. Like somehow the language of my hands will tell her all the things I don't know how to say out loud.
Holly Black
#40. Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.
Vincent Cassel
#41. People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
#42. I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.
Vincent Cassel
#43. Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.
Vincent Cassel
#44. I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
Vincent Cassel
#45. I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel
#46. I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures.
Seymour Cassel
#47. I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
Vincent Cassel
#48. I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
Vincent Cassel
#49. I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Vincent Cassel
#50. I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
Vincent Cassel
#51. I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
Vincent Cassel
#52. When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.
Vincent Cassel
#53. And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
Vincent Cassel
#54. The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
Vincent Cassel
#56. Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
Vincent Cassel
#57. I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
Vincent Cassel
#58. It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.
Seymour Cassel
#59. If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.
Vincent Cassel
#60. The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
Vincent Cassel
#62. I wait for something good or something that will be fun. But they've got to pay me if they want me to work.
Seymour Cassel
#63. I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Vincent Cassel
#64. Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
Vincent Cassel
#65. But the goal of Zen Housekeeping is not to have a home that is perfect. It is to embrace the process of keeping the house - one perfect moment at a time.
Lauren Cassel Brownell
#66. You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.
Wendi Cassel
#67. When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.
Vincent Cassel
#68. When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
Seymour Cassel
#69. I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.
Seymour Cassel
#70. I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.
Vincent Cassel
#71. We were all used to Dad's little show-off sessions, and though they were never worthy of excitement, we always tried to humor him. (Last weekend he'd called us out to the lawn to see what a big pile of dandelions he'd weeded.)
Emily Cassel
#72. I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
Vincent Cassel
#73. When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
Vincent Cassel
#74. The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.
Seymour Cassel
#75. I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
Vincent Cassel
#77. People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
Vincent Cassel
#78. The people who know my work like my work. And that's great.
Seymour Cassel
#79. Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.
Seymour Cassel
#80. I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
Vincent Cassel
#81. There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
Vincent Cassel
#82. I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky's, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.
Seymour Cassel
#83. All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.
Seymour Cassel
#84. As a kid, I remember wearing a checkered suit and appearing on-stage in the routines worked out by the 'baggy pants' comedians.
Seymour Cassel
#85. They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
Vincent Cassel
#87. I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
Vincent Cassel
#88. Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.
Vincent Cassel
#89. I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
Vincent Cassel
#90. Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.
Vincent Cassel
#91. Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
Vincent Cassel
#93. She says that what you did was a cry for help."
"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
Holly Black
#94. I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
Vincent Cassel
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