Top 40 Cary Elwes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.”

— Cary Elwes

2. “There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.”

— Cary Elwes

3. “When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It’s great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.”

— Cary Elwes

4. “I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.”

— Cary Elwes

5. “I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.”

— Cary Elwes

6. “I’ll explain and I’ll use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.”

— Cary Elwes

7. “I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I’m constantly learning and I’m constantly grateful for that.”

— Cary Elwes

8. “We are men of action. Lies do not become us.”

— Cary Elwes

9. “Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.”

— Cary Elwes

10. “It’s true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.”

— Cary Elwes

11. “I take away something from every role. I’m still learning and that’s what life is about.”

— Cary Elwes

12. “Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.”

— Cary Elwes

13. “If you get into the area of judging the character you’re playing you’re getting into a sticky area.”

— Cary Elwes

14. “The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie’s finished, that’s for other people. But while you’re doing it, that’s your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.”

— Cary Elwes

15. “I take away something from every role.”

— Cary Elwes

16. “I think as an actor you’re lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it’s left the theater.”

— Cary Elwes

17. “The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I’m all for it.”

— Cary Elwes

18. “I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.”

— Cary Elwes

19. “Any actor should be grateful if he’s remembered for one movie in their lifetime.”

— Cary Elwes

20. “I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character’s arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.”

— Cary Elwes

21. “I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.”

— Cary Elwes

22. “I like to have a good experience. That’s all you have.”

— Cary Elwes

23. “I’ve been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.”

— Cary Elwes

24. “I think that’s all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.”

— Cary Elwes

25. “That particular take was the one that ended up in the film. So when you see Westley fall to the ground and pass out, that’s not acting. That’s an overzealous actor actually losing consciousness.”

— Cary Elwes

26. “Never take your eyes off your opponent.”

— Cary Elwes

27. “Waiting for Godot.”

— Cary Elwes

28. “This is true love. You think this happens every day?”

— Cary Elwes

29. “We had a really fun time working together on the film. With myself as a pirate. And she as a fair maiden. Running off together in the spirit of love and adventure.”

— Cary Elwes

30. “It should be noted that all hugs from Rob are bear hugs.”

— Cary Elwes

31. “Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue.”

— Cary Elwes

32. “It was, however, combined with the fart itself, a highly unusual sight. I remember looking up at him as a huge grin flashed across his face and remained there – a grin of both amusement and, I suspect, of blessed relief.”

— Cary Elwes

33. “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautiful ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”

— Cary Elwes

34. “It endures. In fact, like a good wine without iocane powder, it seems to get better with time.”

— Cary Elwes

35. “Great Representation of the Art and Use of Fencing, written by the Italian maestro Ridolfo Capo Ferro.”

— Cary Elwes

36. “He was the real hero in my world and I treasured him. And he loved me. Loved spending time with me.”

— Cary Elwes

37. “The only topic you could not get Andre’ to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don’t know if in Andre’s case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler’s code of never giving away trade secrets.”

— Cary Elwes

38. “I wondered if Bill Goldman had ever experienced the same giant rats I had encountered while living in Manhattan – the ones the size of cats, that make you freeze in your tracks. The kind that are not afraid of human beings and carry themselves with that swagger and give you that look that seems to imply, “Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?”

— Cary Elwes

39. “BILLY CRYSTAL It’s been one of the little jewels of my career. Very often, still to this day, in airports or movie theaters, people will walk by and go, “Have fun storming the castle!” Or the really cool ones will whisper to me, “Don’t go swimming for an hour, a good hour,” and then just walk away. Those are the really cool ones.”

— Cary Elwes

40. “Mandy swears that barely a day goes by that he isn’t asked by someone, somewhere, to recite Inigo Montoya’s most famous words, in which he vows vengeance on behalf of his father. “And I never let them down,” he says.”

— Cary Elwes