Acting - Actors Quotes

The stock actor is a stage calamity.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in a tragedy or a comedy, whether they will suffer, will make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life is different. Most men and women are forced perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Gildersterns play Hamlet for us, and […]

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.

It is greatly to Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s credit that, bad as the play was, her acting was worse.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defense Program to prepare our boys for anything.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Acting is happy agony.

Being in this business is a lot better than working in a car factory, a lot better than working in a coal mine. What’s the big deal? People who moan and bitch and complain about what they do, I just want to say, “Then leave! Get out of it! Go do something else!” I mean, […]