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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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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Fonda, Jane
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler
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
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
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)
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bresson, Robert
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie
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
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul
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
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland
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
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.
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
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger
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
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton
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
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
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
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Hitchcock, Alfred
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]
Campbell, Bruce
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
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
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Davis, Bette
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
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
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
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
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William
All men practice the actor's art.
Petron
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
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 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
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
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al
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