Quotes by F. Murray Abraham

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

— F. Murray Abraham

Love

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

— F. Murray Abraham

Success

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I love parties. I love a good time.

— F. Murray Abraham

Love

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

— F. Murray Abraham

Success

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I acted my heart out.

— F. Murray Abraham

Love

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

— F. Murray Abraham

Success

I'm a very proud actor.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wisdom