Acting and Actors Quotes

68 quotations about Acting and Actors

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Edwin Forrest · Acting and Actors

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Judy Garland · Acting and Actors

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

Boy George · Acting and Actors

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

George Glass · Acting and Actors

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

Jeff Goldblum · Acting and Actors

Acting is happy agony.

Sir Alec Guiness · Acting and Actors

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

Robert Half · Acting and Actors

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

William Hazlitt · Acting and Actors

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

William Hazlitt · Acting and Actors

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Katharine Hepburn · Acting and Actors

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

Katharine Hepburn · Acting and Actors

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Katharine Hepburn · Acting and Actors

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

Alfred Hitchcock · Acting and Actors

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

Ron Howard · Acting and Actors

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Jeremy Irons · Acting and Actors

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

Elton John · Acting and Actors

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

Alva Johnson · Acting and Actors

I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.

Tea Leoni · Acting and Actors

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau · Acting and Actors

Actors die so loud.

Henry Miller · Acting and Actors

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

Mary Tyler Moore · Acting and Actors

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Roger Moore · Acting and Actors

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

Jeanne Moreau · Acting and Actors

I have to act to live.

Sir Lawrence Olivier · Acting and Actors

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

Al Pacino · Acting and Actors

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