After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, ‘She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!’
Acting - Actors Quotes
When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.
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.
Our Garrick’s a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree.
The general consensus seems to be that I don’t act at all.
This was an actress (Beatrice Stella Tanner – Mrs. Patrick Campbell) who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.
My dear boy, forget about the motivation. Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
