Let the actor beware!
Acting - Actors Quotes
What does an actor know about politics? (complaining about Screen Actor’s Guild president Ed Asner speaking out on US Foreign policy.)
What is a star? Who the hell knows? I know a lot of good actors who are not stars, and maybe some stars who are not good actors. Gable (Clark Gable) was a star, all right, and he put it on the line that he was not an actor… but he made an impression with […]
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
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 is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.
My suggestion the other day that the lines to be spoken in a new play at the Abbey should be displayed on banners suspended from the balcony and read off by the players as they go along, has won me golden opinions from the acting clique in WAAMA (Irish Writers, Actors, Artists, Musicians Association). They […]
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
