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Acting and actors
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.

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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie
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
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
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
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Moore, Mary Tyler
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
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
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
Huxley, Aldous
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
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva
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
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Jackson, Glenda
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
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
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van
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
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
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George
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
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Lewis, Daniel Day
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
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.
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)
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty
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
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen
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
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
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
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert
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
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry
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
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Fonda, Jane
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat
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