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Acting and actors
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

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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
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
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.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar-- you pretend it's not there.
Hannah, Daryl
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn
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
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland
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
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim
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
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
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
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
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy
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
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty
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
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul
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
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen
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
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De
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
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
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
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
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy
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
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
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al
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
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
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Field, Eugene
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