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Acting and actors
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.

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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry
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
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
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie
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
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty
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
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
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
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Brando, Marlon
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat
I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Leoni, Tea
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
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Brecht, Bertolt
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John
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'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
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
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Duras, Marguerite
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim
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
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
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
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
McDormand, Frances
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec
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
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel
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
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Thomas, Jonathan Taylor
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 don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec
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
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.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy
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 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.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne
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
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
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Richardson, Miranda
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry
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
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