Steve Guttenberg

“From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.”

“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.”

“Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.”

“You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.”

“I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.”

“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.”

“Directing is a tremendous art.”

“In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.”

“The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.”

“Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?”

“I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.”

“For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.”

“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.”

“A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.”

“I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.”

“I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?”

“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.”

“A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.”

“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.”

“Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.”