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"Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace."

Field, Eugene on acting and actors    Share


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

Fields, W. C. on acting and actors    Share

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

Fiske, Minnie on acting and actors    Share

"The best actors do not let the wheels show."

Fonda, Henry on acting and actors    Share

"A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming."

Fonda, Jane on acting and actors    Share

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

Fonda, Jane on acting and actors    Share

"I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]"

Ford, Harrison on acting and actors    Share

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

Forrest, Edwin on acting and actors    Share

"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."

Garland, Judy on acting and actors    Share

"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

George, Boy on acting and actors    Share

"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

Glass, George on acting and actors    Share

"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life."

Goldblum, Jeff on acting and actors    Share

"Acting is happy agony."

Guiness, Sir Alec on acting and actors
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."

Hagen, Uta on acting and actors    Share

"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."

Half, Robert on acting and actors
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"A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there."

Hannah, Daryl on acting and actors    Share

"They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness."

Hazlitt, William on acting and actors    Share

"We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all."

Hazlitt, William on acting and actors    Share

"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors    Share

"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."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors    Share

"It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors    Share

"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."

Hepburn, Katharine on acting and actors    Share

"I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

Hitchcock, Alfred on acting and actors    Share

"You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer."

Howard, Ron on acting and actors    Share

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

Hunter, Holly on acting and actors    Share

"Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it."

Huston, John on acting and actors    Share

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

Irons, Jeremy on acting and actors
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"In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part."

Irving, Washington on acting and actors    Share

"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."

Jackson, Glenda on acting and actors    Share

"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."

Jackson, Glenda on acting and actors
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"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

John, Elton on acting and actors    Share

"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."

Johnson, Alva on acting and actors    Share

"Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs."

Johnson, Samuel on acting and actors    Share

"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."

Kavanagh, Patrick on acting and actors    Share

"I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving."

Kline, Kevin on acting and actors    Share

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

Lansbury, Angela on acting and actors    Share

"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."

Lawless, Lucy on acting and actors    Share

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

Leoni, Tea on acting and actors    Share

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