89 Quotes by James Cromwell

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.