Brendan Fraser

“The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.”

“I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.”

“I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.”

“Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.”

“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.”

“George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?”

“I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.”

“I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.”

“If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.”

“Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.”

“I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.”

“I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.”

“Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.”

“I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.”

“What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?”

“I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.”

“I think you have to show homage to creators.”

“I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.”

“When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.”

“They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?”