Steve Guttenberg Quotes


"Directing is a tremendous art."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Art)

"Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Film, Fun, Terror)

"Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich."
- Steve Guttenberg
"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Career)

"You can tell when you're in a hit."
- Steve Guttenberg
"It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Comedy, Machines, Xerox)

"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
(Related: People, Artists, Reason, Support)

"No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Life)

"Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?"
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: English, states, Trying, United)

"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Hollywood, Smiles)

"Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do."
- Steve Guttenberg
"Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Comedy, Drama)

"In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Water)

"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
(Related: Food, Actor, Pretty)

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

"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Friend, Chance, Friends, Meetings)

"When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: People, Attention, Name)

"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Work)

"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Skin)

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

"I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Love, Money, Power, Fame)

"I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Business)

"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Movies, Bragging)

"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
(Related: Pretty)

"I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?"
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Actor, World)

"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
(Related: Life, Movies, Time, Building, Years)

"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Culture, Popular)

"I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Deep, Want)

"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
(Related: Money, People)

"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
(Related: People, Actors, Inspiring)

"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
(Related: Money, Lie, Jobs, Parents)