Steve Guttenberg Quotations

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor is such a rarity on earth. It's like making a living as a painter. So I look at different opportunities in the same way as Jack Nicholson, who said once, "Keep popping up in different holes. That's what you want to do: Just keep popping up in different holes." That made a lot of sense to me.