Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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.
We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.
Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
