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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
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 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

3.
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger

4.
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland

5.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

6.
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

7.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

8.
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

9.
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]
Campbell, Bruce

10.
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

11.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Fonda, Jane

12.
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

13.
All men practice the actor's art.
Petron

14.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

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.
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

17.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

18.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

19.
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

20.
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

21.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

22.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

23.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne

24.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel

25.
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

26.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald

27.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

28.
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

29.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Byron, Lord

30.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert

31.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy

32.
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela

33.
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

34.
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat

35.
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

36.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

37.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen

38.
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

39.
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

40.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy

44.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler

45.
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)

46.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Dundy, Elaine

47.
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

48.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert

49.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]
Selleck, Tom

50.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea


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