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Acting and actors
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.

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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson
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
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
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
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
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva
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
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec
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)
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn
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.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
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
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert
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
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
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy
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
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
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
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
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
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
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Forrest, Edwin
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
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
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar-- you pretend it's not there.
Hannah, Daryl
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
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Goldblum, Jeff
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler
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
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
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron
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
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