The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
Acting - Actors Quotes
A professional amateur. (Marilyn Monroe)
Stay out of jail. (Advice to young filmmakers)
I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
