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Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar-- you pretend it's not there.
Hannah, Daryl

2.
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
Wilde, Oscar

3.
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma

4.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis

5.
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
Huston, John

6.
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim

7.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy

8.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Fonda, Jane

9.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Johnson, Samuel

10.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William

11.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

12.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Hagen, Uta

13.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry

14.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Field, Eugene

15.
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor

16.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bresson, Robert

17.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty

18.
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger

19.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Brecht, Bertolt

20.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

21.
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Auden, W. H.

22.
People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Lewis, Juliette

23.
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
D'Onofrio, Vincent

24.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

25.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Sinden, Donald

26.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

27.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

28.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Lawless, Lucy

29.
You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
Parker, Sarah Jessica

30.
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

31.
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette

32.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

33.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

34.
The hardest part has been maintaining a small head--remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.
Brandy

35.
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
Sorvino, Mira

36.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Malkovich, John

37.
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
Shakespeare, William

38.
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.
Kline, Kevin

39.
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
Hazlitt, William

40.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Jackson, Glenda

41.
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
Buscemi, Steve

42.
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

43.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul

44.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Byron, Lord

45.
I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Stallone, Sylvester

46.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

47.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

48.
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard

49.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

50.
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
Davis Jr., Sammy


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