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.
Alfred North Whitehead
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemon
Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.
Jenny Mccarthy
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Alec Guinness
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.
Leonardo Dicaprio
I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert Everett
Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.
Roddy Mcdowall
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin Hoffman
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
Robert A. M. Stern
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Ninon de Lenclos
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
Alec Guinness
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
Laurence Olivier, Sir
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar Bradley
Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon
Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.
Kirsten Dunst
I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!
Josh Hartnett
Without acting I cannot breathe.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
Alec Guinness
I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
Rene Russo
A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.
Walter Kerr
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Alyssa Milano
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Rachael Leigh
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Joseph P. Kennedy
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan
...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
Cary Grant
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
William Manchester
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
Yakov Smirnoff
My fans want me with my hair.
Sarah Brightman
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Milan Kundera
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Charlie Chaplin
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Jeremy Irons
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Jack Nicholson
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
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.
Marlon Brando
The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.
Roy Wilkins
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold Macmillan
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova
In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.
Melanie Griffith
The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
Dirk Bogarde
I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.
Melissa Joan Hart
You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
Jack L. Warner
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
Sir Arthur Helps
I never had my own name on a bathing suit on Baywatch. I was always given one that said Pamela or Yasmine. I earned my own suit, at the end of the season, which I now have framed.
Carmen Electra
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
Francois Truffaut
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier, Sir
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.
Melvin Maddocks
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
Cedric Hardwicke
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Charlotte Whitton
The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
Leonardo Dicaprio
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Sam Rayburn
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Antoine Rivarol
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
Tony Scott
He allows his actors freedom to explore.
Maria Bello
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Margaret Halsey
An actors' tribute to me is in his work.
Lee Strasberg
We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
Helen Mirren
We have sought exemptions from hearings for the film actors.
Hastimal Saraswat
I made a statement before that there were no good actors up here. I eat my words.
Robert Duvall
Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
Alan Clark
There are a few times where it looks like the actors are about to smile.
Jason Ballweber
We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.
Cathy Mirelez
We don't want them actually dousing the actors by spraying them.
Phil Murphy
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Charlie Chaplin
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
Alexander Woollcott
As long as they are good actors, I thought they would do well.
Peter Chan
These (actors) are names we never thought we would get.
Brannon Braga
It's lonely not to have other actors to go with you on the journey.
Valerie Harper
He really likes actors. He's not faking it.
Julian Fellowes
The actors are in character. They don't talk about the character; they talk as the character. It's really an interesting effect.
Mark French
I have all sorts of actors wearing [the jewelry] now.
Gemma La Mana
There's some fantastic British actors on display.
Paul Bradley
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner
I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
I really feel a need to do something for my fellow actors.
Alan Rosenberg
He was very involved as a director for his actors and he was also stepping into the actors' shoes as well, and (did so) very well.
January Jones
Actors really should be tramps.
Martin Milner
Actors are responsible to the people we play.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
It's tough to find good, young actors.
Brett Johnson
And that's one of the great things about actors: their willingness to play and to do something.
Jeff Bridges
Internet con artists are bad actors without borders.
Jodie Bernstein
One of this country's most acclaimed and revered actors.
Julie Harris
Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
Anne Parillaud
You should never ask actors about politics.
Liev Schreiber
Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.
Dominic Monaghan
As actors, we have to deal with anything that comes up.
Pete Capella
If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
Tara Strong
My actors and crew were miserable working in that desert.
Robert Halmi Sr
We have talented actors, but we do need directors and producers.
Fred Brown
For [our] actors, playing here is a civil act, a heroic deed.
Nikolai Khalezin
What the Vatican is to the Catholics, Ten Chimneys is to actors.
Carol Channing
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Only very, very good actors can fake them.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
I always noticed that the actors are always better looking than I am or ever was.
Pat Conroy
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Ellen Terry
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