Acting - Actors Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The better the actor the more stupid he is.

You know this King stuff is pure BS. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like everyone else. There’s no special light that shines and makes me a star. I’m just a lucky slob from Ohio. I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I had a […]

You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.