I’m lucky the business I’m in is just forced empathy, because you are constantly putting yourself in the shoes of somebody else.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power. The people who enjoy the greatest glory in the United States are film stars, but they can be put in their place by the committee for Un-American Activities, which enjoys no glory whatever.
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint, and a way of moving which meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not.
I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and all other female impersonators.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (1927)
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (Hamlet)
