Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Acting - Actors Quotes
Essentially, I’m a small-part actor who’s been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled.
I wasn’t driven to acting by an inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
You need three things in the theater – the play, the actors and the audience, – and each must give something.
The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
To respect one’s work and to do it well – to risk something in life was more important than being a star. To never sell your soul, to have self-esteem, to be true, was most important of all.
What does an actor do if he can’t talk? He has to wait for silent pictures to return.
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
