Acting - Actors Quotes

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 […]

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.

It is greatly to Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s credit that, bad as the play was, her acting was worse.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people.

Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

I am here today demanding that Attorney-General Tom Clark institute proceedings to deport Charlie Chaplin. He has refused to become an American citizen. His very life in Hollywood is detrimental to the moral fabric of America. In that way he can be kept off the American screen and his loathsome pictures can be kept from […]