Motivational Quotes

Acting and actors

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

Best Quotes about Acting and actors

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

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

Sinden, Donald

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

Leoni, Tea

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Field, Eugene

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Pacino, Al

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Carrey, Jim

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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

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

Quinn, Anthony

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

John, Elton

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I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Damme, Jean-Claude Van

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Actors die so loud.

Miller, Henry

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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

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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Brando, Marlon

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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

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

Moreau, Jeanne

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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

Moore, Mary Tyler

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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

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You are not in business to be popular.

Alley, Kirstie

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

Barthes, Roland

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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

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An actor is only merchandise.

Chow Yun-Fat

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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

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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

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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

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

Close, Glenn

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A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Redford, Robert

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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

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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

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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Spacey, Kevin

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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Baldwin, Alec

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.