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Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
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

2.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Zane, Billy

7.
I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
Ulrich, Skeet

8.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

9.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Goldblum, Jeff

10.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Fields, W. C.

11.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William

12.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Byron, Lord

13.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

14.
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
Lewis, Daniel Day

15.
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

16.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

17.
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Whitaker, Forest

18.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy

19.
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Brando, Marlon

21.
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

22.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill

23.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Hunter, Holly

24.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea

25.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

26.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert

27.
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

28.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
Huxley, Aldous

29.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

30.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

31.
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

32.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis

33.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

34.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Lewis, Daniel Day

36.
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

37.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Forrest, Edwin

38.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen

39.
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

40.
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
Campbell, Thomas

41.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Tracy, Spencer

42.
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
Olin, Lena

43.
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

44.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis

45.
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

46.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie

47.
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

48.
First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Caine, Michael

49.
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Jackson, Glenda

50.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul


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