Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much. (Advice on acting)
Acting - Actors Quotes
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power. The people who enjoy the greatest glory in the United States are film stars, but they can be put in their place by the committee for Un-American Activities, which enjoys no glory whatever.
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint, and a way of moving which meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not.
I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and all other female impersonators.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (1927)
Stay out of jail. (Advice to young filmmakers)
I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
It’s not true that I said “actors are cattle.” I said “they should be treated like cattle.”
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. To do this, it is imperative that you reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience, and expose yourself… Rosalind Russell […]
The best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
