Actors Quotes

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The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Katharine Hepburn

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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I ha

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

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I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mother

I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!

Angela Lansbury

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After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. Afte

After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Frances McDormand

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

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

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You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my wa

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

Sammy Davis Jr.

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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure m

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Sho

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

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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy.

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.

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

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

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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping b

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.

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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. Yo

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for ch

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

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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Augusten Burroughs

Morning

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know wh

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

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A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a ma

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Fabr

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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human bei

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Marguerite Duras

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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Marguerite Duras

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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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