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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
- Pacino, Al
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
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

2.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson

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

4.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

5.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert

6.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Forrest, Edwin

7.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

8.
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

9.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert

10.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

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

12.
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

13.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn

14.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite

15.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

16.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie

17.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

18.
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

19.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

20.
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

21.
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

22.
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard

23.
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

24.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger

25.
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

26.
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Duras, Marguerite

27.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty

28.
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Driver, Minnie

29.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Barrymore, Ethel

30.
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec

31.
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

32.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen

33.
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

34.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

35.
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

36.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea

41.
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

42.
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

43.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

44.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne

45.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy

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

49.
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.

50.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva


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