Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Actors.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Ellen Terry
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Roger Moore
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Mary Tyler Moore
If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.
Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o
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
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow YunFat
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Ralph Richardson, "Time Magazine
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Eleanor Robson Belmont, The Fabr
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Nancy Reagan
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
George Glass
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.
Sir Alec Guinness
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Al Pacino
The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Roland Barthes
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
Aldous Huxley
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
Steve Buscemi
