Words matter. These are the best F. Murray Abraham Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don’t like or understand – it feels too close to pandering. I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t work.
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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’m not afraid to go anywhere, to the smallest theatre or the least amount of money.
My family is blue-collar – coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.
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.
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 have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that.
I’d like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I’ll go with him. I can’t think of anything better than to die in place ‘s just beginning their lives.
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel – that’s all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
I acted my heart out.
I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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.
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.
With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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?
I always play these bad guys, and I’m really a nice guy.
I can’t pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see ‘The Glass Menagerie?’
The only reason I signed on for a speech and drama course was because I thought it would be easy, but as soon as I stepped on the stage, I thought, ‘This is exactly where I belong.’
I love parties. I love a good time.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there.
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
My Oscar has appeared in every play I’ve done since – not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.
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.
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
I’m just having a wonderful time. It’s an interesting thing that I’m very comfortable with this material and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I did MacBeth.
I’m first-generation American – my people came over on boats – and I think it’s a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.
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.
People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.