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



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie

2.
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

3.
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

4.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

5.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill

6.
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

7.
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

8.
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

9.
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

10.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Redford, Robert

11.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William

12.
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.

13.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

14.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

15.
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat

16.
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma

17.
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

18.
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

19.
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
Macliammoir, Micheal

20.
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

21.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry

22.
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

23.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert

24.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Field, Eugene

25.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

26.
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard

27.
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

28.
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim

29.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

30.
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John

34.
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

35.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Garland, Judy

36.
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

37.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Pacino, Al

38.
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

39.
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)

40.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald

41.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda

46.
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

47.
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

48.
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela

49.
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

50.
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


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