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.
Acting - Actors Quotes
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (1927)
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (Hamlet)
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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.
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.
I hope to God I don’t win an Oscar. It would really depress me if I did.
