Motivational Quotes
Acting and actors
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.

Best Quotes about Acting and actors
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William
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
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Rogers, Ginger
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul
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
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
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
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John
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
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
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis
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
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin
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
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen
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
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie
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
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.
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
All men practice the actor's art.
Petron
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill
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
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
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Irons, Jeremy
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marceau, Marcel
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Sinden, Donald
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
George, Boy
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Fonda, Henry
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
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
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony
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
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
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne
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
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
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine
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
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar-- you pretend it's not there.
Hannah, Daryl
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