I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Acting - Actors Quotes
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn’t win an award for playing yourself. (to Bette Davis after she failed to win an Oscar as best actress for her 1935 portrayal of the Cockney waitress Mildred in Of Human Bondage)
A graduate of the Mount Rushmore school of acting. (on Charlton Heston)
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
You’re an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational – and probably sexual!
She no more thought of the play out of which her part was taken, than a shoemaker thinks of the skin, out of which the piece of leather, of which he is making a pair of shoes, is cut.
My dear boy, why don’t you try acting? (on the set of ‘Marathon Man’, to Dustin Hoffman, who had announced that he’d gone 3 days without sleep in order to ‘become’ his character.)
That’s what show business is – sincere insincerity.
Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
