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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
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

2.
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

3.
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

4.
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Chaplin, Charlie

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

8.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

9.
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

10.
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

11.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Baldwin, Alec

12.
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Barthes, Roland

13.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

14.
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

15.
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Davies, Marion

16.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

17.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson

18.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Hepburn, Katharine

19.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Barkin, Ellen

20.
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

21.
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Carrey, Jim

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
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.

27.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie

28.
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

29.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Python, Monty

30.
Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Cusack, John

31.
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

32.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

33.
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

34.
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Howard, Ron

35.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
An actress must never lose her ego--without it she has no talent.
Shearer, Norma

43.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Johnson, Alva

44.
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

45.
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

46.
I find myself fascinating.
Dreyfus, Richard

47.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

48.
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

49.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul

50.
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


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