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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. Dustin Hoffman
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
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
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.
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. Alec Guinness
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. Laurence Olivier, Sir
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. Jack Nicholson
Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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
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.
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
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!
Without acting I cannot breathe. Laurence Olivier, Sir
Without acting I cannot breathe.
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
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.
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
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.
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. Alyssa Milano
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. Rachael Leigh
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
A lot of what acting is paying attention. Nancy Reagan
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
...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
...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?
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