A biography for F. Murray Abrahamhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a very proud actor.”
“I'm the spokesperson for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees. My father was from Syria. It's an American initiative, and it's multi-faith. So, it's maybe 60-65 different organisations, Jews, Christians, Hindus... Anyway, it's very important and serious.”
“I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.”
“I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.”
“I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.”
“No matter all of your credits and accomplishments - you can be forgotten in a trice. The idea that you have to go back and start again after considerable success can destroy you if you're not strong. I never lost track of who I am and what I can do, because I continually find things to do, but not everyone has that resource.”
“If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.”
“With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?”
“Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.”
“Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.”
“One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.”
“All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.”
“As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.”
“The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.”
“I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.”
“I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.”
“I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me.”
“I acted my heart out.”
“Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.”
“I'm not afraid to go anywhere, to the smallest theatre or the least amount of money.”