Actors And Acting Quotes

• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

  Acting, Stage Actors, Wonder

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Actors

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• The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

  "Marlon Brando: The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, Ch.13, 1985.

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

  Jack Lemmon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dedication

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from May 09, 2014

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Personality, Acting

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Acting, Actors, Remember

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

  Jane Fonda

  Funny, Humorous, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

  Kate Reid

  Emotional, Acting, Actors

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• First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Gentleman, Acting, Actors

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Real, Men, Voice

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• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Acting, Doe, Actors

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• To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

  James Dean

  People, Acting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Sarcastic, Acting

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• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

  In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33

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

  Ethel Barrymore

  Ideas, Acting, Events

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