Mustache Quotes

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a mustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn`t really much confusion.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

(Discussing whether or not he is typecast by audiences as Jean-Luc Picard): I think perhaps when I first walk in front of the camera they`ll say, "Aha, there, ah, yeah, Jean-Luc, we recognize him despite that charming little mustache." I believe that audiences are really smart enough to let go of that pretty quickly, but that`s also my job as an actor to persuade them that, you know, Jean-Luc Picard is left behind and this is someone entirely different... I mean, I`m an actor dedicated to transforming myself and to creating original pieces of work, and I will not accept that my life is going to be forever connected to Jean-Luc Picard in the roles that I play. On the other hand, I`m absolutely delighted that he`s still in my life. Actually, I think my appearance in The Simpsons and an appearance that I did on Sesame Street - in praise of the letter B - were perhaps the two most distinguished bits of work that I`ve done in the United States. (Discussing his love for Beavis & Butthead): Oh, yes, my passion for them remains the same... I think it`s one of the most original and brilliant pieces of television that we`ve seen in recent years. The dialogue is delightful. I simply sit and giggle and laugh all the time.

(on Burt Reynolds) What I look for mostly in a man is humor, honesty and a mustache. Burt has all three.

(On how his look was created in Pulp Fiction (1994)) "Quentin Tarantino wanted Jules to have a big afro. He sent this PA out to buy a wig. She went to South Central and bought this jeri-curl wig. And Quentin was going off, saying, `It`s got to be an afro because he had this whole blaxploitation thing`. I told him, `That`s the South Central look.` You look at Ice Cube and NWA. Guys had all this shit dripping down their necks. I had already grown the sideburns out and the mustache. It was perfect. Total Gangster."

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

(on the US-Iraq war of 2003:) "This is not the first time that Europe has been passive while a Jew-hating tyrant with a weird looking mustache killed the people by giving them gas. (Pause.) Obviously I`m talking about Chef Boyardee."

(on acting) This isn`t work. It`s fun. The whole thing is fun. I hear actors say, "I have to go to work tomorrow". Nonsense. Work is eight hours in a coal mine or a government office. Getting up in the morning and putting on a funny mustache, and dressing up and showing off in front of the grown-ups, that`s play, and for which we`re beautifully overpaid. I`ve always felt that way. After all, how many people in the world are doing things that they like to do?.

I`ve grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.

I am currently having the best of times in Wind in the Willows here in London. A pair of tights and a twitchy mustache are always a good start to Christmas.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

She started to respond. She remembered the eyes ... the shape and color. She remembered the mustache, shape of the mouth and nose and shape of the head.

Don`t think I don`t know who`s been spreading gossip about me . . . After all the nice things I`ve said about that hag (Bette Davis). When I get hold of her, I`ll tear out every hair of her mustache!

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

Goggles were not allowed. A cap was allowed, but I chose not to wear one. I grew the mustache because a coach in college said I couldn`t grow one.

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

My character has the same background as `In the Mood for Love,` the same hairstyle, the same costume, it`s filmed on the same set and because it`s Kar Wai I don`t have a script. I need something to get hold of, and I said, `Can I have a mustache at least?` (On discussions with Wong for his character, Chow Mo Wan)

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70's and the 60's to the 50's, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20's, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment; they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason. They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when you're either with us or against us, which means you either are us or we'll exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values. If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that's Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it's when 150% America puts a flag on it's lapel and a cross around it's neck and a real folksy way a talkin', but just because it's red, white and blue, doesn't mean it's American.