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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
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie

2.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Byron, Lord

3.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

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.
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

9.
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

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

11.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony

12.
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

13.
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

14.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
Irving, Washington

15.
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

16.
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

17.
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger

18.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

19.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

20.
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

21.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

22.
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

23.
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

24.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry

25.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William

26.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

27.
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

28.
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Jackson, Glenda

29.
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

30.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis

31.
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

32.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

33.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Davies, Marion

34.
All men practice the actor's art.
Petron

35.
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

36.
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

37.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul

38.
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.

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

41.
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

42.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

43.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert

44.
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

45.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

46.
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

47.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty

48.
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea

49.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

50.
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor


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