Brendan Fraser quotes:

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman."

I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them

I think you have to show homage to creators.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some...

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director.

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me.

I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

The dimensionality of 3D, the depth of field, the dynamism... it's an immersive experience. And on top of that it's great because the new glasses don't make you want to throw up and they don't give you paper cuts!

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.