Actors Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Idiot

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• Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

  Cesar Romero

  Missing You, Selfish, Views

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• Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

  Shirley Booth

  Acting, Should, Audience

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

  Sam Rayburn

  Real, Heart, Acting

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Truthful, Enlightening

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• Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

  Sandra Oh

  Calling, Becoming, Hard

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• If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Acting, Serious

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• Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

  Richard Hornby

  Self, Everyday, Acting

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• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Movie, Inspiring, Needs

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

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• I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

  Guillermo del Toro

  Attitude, Pantomime, Dialogue

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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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• 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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• I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Music, Opportunity, Thinking

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

  Marlon Brando

  Talking, Guy, Listening

  Quoted in Bob Thomas Brando (1973), ch.8.

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

  W. H. Auden

  Gentleman, Acting, Theater

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Quality, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.204, Library of America

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• There are no small parts. Only small actors.

  Ginger Rogers

  Theatre Acting, Small Parts, Actors And Acting

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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. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  Jack Lemmon

  Emotional, Intellectual, Acting

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• 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

  Motivational, Talent

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Identity, Roles

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• There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stage, Peasants

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.223, Xist Publishing

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• An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

  Michael Chekhov

  Acting, Ease

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