Acting - Actors Quotes

I’m lucky the business I’m in is just forced empathy, because you are constantly putting yourself in the shoes of somebody else.

The majority of great actresses met tragic ends. When I said goodbye to this job, to this life of opulence and glitter, images and adoration, the quest to be desired, I was saving my life.

Not trying to take all the credit for Lizzie McGuire, but I am very much Lizzie McGuire, and she is very much me.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn’t win an award for playing yourself. (to Bette Davis after she failed to win an Oscar as best actress for her 1935 portrayal of the Cockney waitress Mildred in Of Human Bondage)

A graduate of the Mount Rushmore school of acting. (on Charlton Heston)

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Don’t get married to an actress because they’re also actresses in bed.

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much. (Advice on acting)