I was already 35 years old, and I`d been in show business for 30-plus years, and suddenly there was this big movie and I was getting an Oscar, and this enormous thing happened," he says. "In Annie Hall (1977), I played the strange brother who wanted to drive into oncoming cars. Immediately after that was The Deer Hunter (1978), where I played this nice guy who shoots himself in the head. Something happened there. The fact that they came so close together, and they were both important movies, two big public things where I was simultaneously . . . `disturbed.` That got the ball rolling for me in terms of being an actor.
- Christopher WalkenIf I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
- Edward FurlongI`m very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going. I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East. I don`t think military intervention is the correct solution. I regret what we as a country have done so far.
- Harrison FordAbout the 2008 death of Brad Renfro: "I first caught sight of Brad Renfro when he was kicking a football around with Bryan Singer on the half-built set of Apt Pupil in Hollywood. He was a kid having fun and that`s how I shall always remember him. But he was more than that. He was a proper actor and when we worked together he was determined to be accepted as such. On set, he was blusteringly confident although it was obvious he would have benefited from training as an actor. Yet, as Todd, the disturbed teenager in Apt Pupil, he tapped into an inner demonic world and carried the film on his young shoulders. He longed to belong in the alien world which perhaps in the end overwhelmed him. He was only 25 and it is dreadful we shan`t see all that he might have achieved."
- Ian McKellenI`m not a very popular person. I was pushed to show the unfinished version of Brown Bunny in Cannes, against my judgement. And even though a lot of negative reaction to the film came from not setting up the presentation very well, I still felt responsible and disturbed. But Europeans are animals. Who cares?.
- Vincent GalloMy education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody AllenThe later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.
- Erich Maria RemarqueI do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
- James ThurberIf I watch my old films, for example The Seventh Seal, I realize I do a lot of stage acting there; I have always been disturbed by the declamatory fashion in which I speak in a film like that. But then TV suddenly swept through Sweden, and we were all soon accustomed to realism, from newsreels, talk shows, and then of course there was the Method school of acting, which exerted an influence in Europe also. Today, theater actors, and film actors with a stage background, use a different style to the one we subscribed to during the 1940s and 1950s. Bergman`s dialog in those days was very stylized, so it would have been difficult for me to speak those lines realistically.
- Max von SydowIt`s true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn`t have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.
- Tommy BondI am faintly disturbed that this has turned into instant uplift. You`d hate to see him turn his life into a career of telling the same story that resulted from an accident.
- David RobertsPeople don`t enjoy violence in real life, but they love it in their movies. And I think a lot of studio horror movies don`t want to offend anybody. If there`s anything that`s too far out there, they test it and if it offends people, they take it out. But Open Water, Wolf Creek, The Devil`s Rejects -- these are movies made outside of the studio system, that don`t have a happy ending. (The studios and critics) forget that that`s what people are paying for -- to be terrified and disturbed.
- Eli Roth(on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people) Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn`t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You`d be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, "I love these characters".
- Roger AvaryAnimals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- VoltaireI`m not a guru or a sage. I`m a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people who seem to be taking this too seriously.
- Robert JordanFor the past two years, my brother has been portrayed as a bank robber, mentally disturbed, suicidal or worse, ... I can`t believe that (investigators) still have my brother on the hook for this. We know my brother; everybody knows he is not a bank robber.
- Brian WellsEver since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
- Lion FeuchtwangerThe thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
- Robert MusilThe noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
- Ernest ShackletonWe didn`t need all this. We`re upset because they`ve disturbed the whole town for the whole day and caused a lot of problems.
- Robert CampbellNot wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
- Alan BartonFor the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature`s finest balm.
- Alberto FernandezHad the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
- Alexis WaggonerI am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
- Altaf LadakThat man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
- Andres Manuel Lopez ObradorWe were all emotionally disturbed. But we had to make a living. And I couldn`t build a future if I lived in the past.
- Angela KubasaAs a parent of a varsity basketball player, I have been disturbed by the verbal attacks and accusations directed toward coach Jackson, ... I find it unusual that incidents, such as mooning, are recalled by some players, but not others. We look forward to the resolution of this distracting issue and a successful upcoming basketball season. Hopefully, all players on this year`s team will have positive attitudes and will bring 110 percent effort to the court every day. My son and my family totally support coach Jackson.
- Anne AustinBecause it was a golf course a lot of streams were disturbed. We`re going to restore the streams back into their original condition.
- Antonio MartinezWe were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.
- Athena StarwomanOne of the things that disturbed us historically was the backlog of cases that existed. We are very happy to see that a lot of that backlog is now starting to be chipped away at. We`re seeing a rapid turnaround of cases,
- Bambi Spahr