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 does an actor know about politics? (complaining about Screen Actor’s Guild president Ed Asner speaking out on US Foreign policy.)
What is a star? Who the hell knows? I know a lot of good actors who are not stars, and maybe some stars who are not good actors. Gable (Clark Gable) was a star, all right, and he put it on the line that he was not an actor… but he made an impression with […]
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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)
