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.

Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

The stock actor is a stage calamity.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in a tragedy or a comedy, whether they will suffer, will make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life is different. Most men and women are forced perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Gildersterns play Hamlet for us, and […]