Motivational Quotes
Acting and actors
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.

Best Quotes about Acting and actors
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.
Kline, Kevin
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
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
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite
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 was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Lawless, Lucy
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor
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
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
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
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
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
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Shakespeare, William
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
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
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
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
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva
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
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy
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
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela
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
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
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Diderot, Denis
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
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Fonda, Jane
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
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette
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.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec
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
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Kavanagh, Patrick
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]
Ford, Harrison
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
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