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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

2.
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

3.
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec

4.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

5.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

6.
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

7.
The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good.
Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Goldblum, Jeff

12.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

13.
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie

14.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda

15.
From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.
Brosnan, Pierce

16.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

17.
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

18.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn

19.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger

20.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert

21.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

22.
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Terry, Ellen

23.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony

24.
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor

25.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis

26.
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

27.
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

28.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar-- you pretend it's not there.
Hannah, Daryl

29.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Bernhardt, Sarah

30.
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Hitchcock, Alfred

31.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

32.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Brando, Marlon

33.
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Kavanagh, Patrick

34.
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
Macliammoir, Micheal

35.
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette

36.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

37.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Shakespeare, William

38.
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
Mitchum, Robert

39.
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

40.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Field, Eugene

41.
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

42.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis

43.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

44.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

45.
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

46.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Shaw, George Bernard

47.
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

48.
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

49.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald

50.
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin


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