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Acting is happy agony.
- Guiness, Sir Alec
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Brecht, Bertolt

2.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

3.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

4.
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

5.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

6.
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

7.
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela

8.
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

9.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis

10.
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

11.
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

12.
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

13.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Fonda, Jane

14.
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

15.
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

16.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Hepburn, Katharine

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

23.
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

24.
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

25.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn

26.
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

27.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy

28.
I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.
Price, Vincent

29.
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

30.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

31.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler

32.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Goldblum, Jeff

33.
The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Hepburn, Katharine

34.
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

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.
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

37.
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John

38.
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

39.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

40.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry

45.
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

46.
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie

47.
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

48.
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette

49.
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim

50.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda


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