Steve Guttenberg famous quotes

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.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Hero #Autism #Underdog

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Regret #Character #Proud

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Needs #Asking #Rich

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Sides #Painting #Making Money

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Mean #Goal #Boss

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Artist #Luxury #Actors

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Fortune #Show Business #Shows

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Eye #Long #Matter

My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Nice #Happy Life #Goal

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Men #Important #Purpose

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Sky #Limits

Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Missing #Might #Sometimes

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Regret #Thinking #People

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Successful #Car #People

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Meaningful #Hard Work #Writing

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Luxury

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Careers #New Job #Comeback

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

#Drama #Guy #Comedy

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.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#People #Made #Really Happy

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Knives #Hollywood #Allure

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Years #Actors #Guilds

You can tell when you're in a hit.
-- Steve Guttenberg

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Good Things

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.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Long #Lucky #Actors

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Fun #Wish #Short Circuit

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Beautiful #Utah #Water

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Chance #Chance Meeting #Meetings

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Machines #Copying #Comedy

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Matter #Turns

Directing is a tremendous art.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Art

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Culture #Popular Culture

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Skins

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Grateful #Lucky

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Dollars #Bragging #Wells

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Names #Giving #People

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Fun #Film #Terror

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Gay #Men #Gay Men

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

#Years #Two #Three

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

#Actors #Film #Shots

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Fame

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?
-- Steve Guttenberg

#World #Care #Actors

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Giving #Deserve

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Art #Said #Acts Of Courage

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Inspiring #Special People #Actors

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

#Trying #United States #Stills

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.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Couple #Artist #People

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.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Teacher #Jobs #Stars

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.
-- Steve Guttenberg

#Looks #Progression #Smooth