I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
When they are young, nubile Hollywood actresses all utter the same idiotic cliches about the artistic value of nudity in movies. Then they expect us to feel sorry for them when parts dry up after they become old and start to sag. Live by the breast, die by the breast.
