Acting and Actors Quotes

68 quotations about Acting and Actors

You are not in business to be popular.

Kirstie Alley · Acting and Actors

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Henri Frederic Amiel · Acting and Actors

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Alec Baldwin · Acting and Actors

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Ellen Barkin · Acting and Actors

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

Roland Barthes · Acting and Actors

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord Byron · Acting and Actors

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

Jim Carrey · Acting and Actors

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charlie Chaplin · Acting and Actors

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Chevy Chase · Acting and Actors

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

Anton Chekhov · Acting and Actors

An actor is only merchandise.

Chow Yun-Fat · Acting and Actors

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

Glenn Close · Acting and Actors

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Acting and Actors

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

John Cusack · Acting and Actors

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Jean-Claude Van Damme · Acting and Actors

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis · Acting and Actors

All men practice the actor's art.

Petron · Acting and Actors

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Elvis Presley · Acting and Actors

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Denis Diderot · Acting and Actors

I find myself fascinating.

Richard Dreyfus · Acting and Actors

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

Marguerite Duras · Acting and Actors

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

Minnie Fiske · Acting and Actors

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Henry Fonda · Acting and Actors

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Jane Fonda · Acting and Actors

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda · Acting and Actors

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