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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.
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
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

2.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne

3.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda

4.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

5.
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma

6.
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

7.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis

8.
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

9.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul

10.
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie

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

12.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

13.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel

14.
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

15.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler

16.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec

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

19.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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)

23.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Field, Eugene

24.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

25.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Wilder, Thornton

26.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen

27.
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

28.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

29.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea

30.
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]
Ford, Harrison

38.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

39.
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

40.
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela

41.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald

42.
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

43.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis

44.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Moreau, Jeanne

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger

49.
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

50.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy


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