Acting - Actors Quotes

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. (Field was referring to Creston Clarke’s performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.)

If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

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.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, ‘She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!’

When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.