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

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People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Lewis, Juliette
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
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson
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
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
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Fonda, Jane
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 real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
Sorvino, Mira
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Fonda, Jane
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
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne
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
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
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite
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
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Goldblum, Jeff
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony
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
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec
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
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
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland
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
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
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler
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.
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
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
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
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Malkovich, John
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 don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea
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