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.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
Everyone knows that people outside show business have show business fantasies-to be an actor, write a script, direct. What most people don’t know is that people in show business have retail fantasies – a little restaurant, maybe a ball team. I want a bookstore.
That fellow is the world’s greatest actor. He can do with no effort what the rest of us spent years trying to learn; to be perfectly natural.
Remember that you are an actor in a play, which is as the playwright wants it to be: short if he wants it short, long if he wants it long. If he wants you to play a beggar, play even this part skillfully, or a cripple, or a public official, or a private citizen. What […]
It was only one of those plays in which the actors, unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.
Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part.
