Motivational Quotes

Acting and actors

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

- Moreau, Jeanne

Best Quotes about Acting and actors

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

Carrey, Jim

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

Glass, George

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

Barthes, Roland

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

George, Boy

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Goldblum, Jeff

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

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

Wood, Elijah

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

Lansbury, Angela

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Pacino, Al

10.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Moreau, Jeanne

11.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

Actors die so loud.

Miller, Henry

13.

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

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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

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

Cusack, John

16.

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Hitchcock, Alfred

17.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Presley, Elvis

18.

Acting is happy agony.

Guiness, Sir Alec

19.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

20.

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

21.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Olin, Lena

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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

23.

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

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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

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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

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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

27.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Ulrich, Skeet

28.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Fonda, Henry

29.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Thomas, Jonathan Taylor

30.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Python, Monty

31.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Fonda, Jane

32.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Close, Glenn

33.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Half, Robert

34.

All men practice the actor's art.

Petron

35.

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

36.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Fiske, Minnie

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

Newman, Paul

38.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Damme, Jean-Claude Van

39.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

John, Elton

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Howard, Ron

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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

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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

Quinn, Anthony

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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

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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

47.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Woodard, Alfre

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

Sinden, Donald

50.

An actor is only merchandise.

Chow Yun-Fat