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 - Actors Quotes
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)
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.
