Actors Quotes


There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. Spencer Tracy Actors 156
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Actors 103
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. Uta Hagen Actors 103
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. Konstantin Stanislavisky Actors 98
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde Actors 92
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. Samuel Johnson Actors 91
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built. Eleanor Robson Belmont Actors 89
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. Henri Frederic Amiel Actors 89
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. Konstantin Stanislavisky Actors 88
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Bill Vaughan Actors 86
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. Marion Davies Actors 85
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. Thomas Campbell Actors 85
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. Miguel de Cervantes Actors 82
Ah just act the way ah feel. Elvis Presley Actors 81
When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint...were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. James Agee Actors 78
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker Actors 77
The best actors do not let the wheels show. Henry Fonda Actors 75
There are no small parts. Only small actors. Ginger Rogers Actors 74
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. Jim Carrey Actors 73
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role. Eleanor Robson Belmont Actors 73
Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper. Ronald Reagan Actors 72
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. Patrick Kavanagh Actors 71
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. Donald Sinden Actors 71
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. Bette Davis Actors 70
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Actors 70
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. Glenda Jackson Actors 70
An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent. Norma Shearer Actors 70
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half Actors 69
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Kevin Spacey Actors 69
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. Alva Johnson Actors 69
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. George Bernard Shaw Actors 68
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. Elton John Actors 67
I have to act to live. Sir Laurence Olivier Actors 67
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. Glenn Close Actors 67
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. Sir Alec Guinness Actors 65
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. Bertolt Brecht Actors 63
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Thomas Reid Actors 61
Above all, ignore the audience.... Minnie Maddern Fiske Actors 61
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. Jane Fonda Actors 60
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. Roger Moore Actors 58
A lot of what acting is paying attention. Robert Redford Actors 56
Actors die so loud. Henry Miller Actors 56
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. Charlie Chaplin Actors 55
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. William Hazlitt Actors 55
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. William Shakespeare Actors 52
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination. Ellen Terry Actors 51
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. Nancy Reagan Actors 50
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. Ellen Barkin Actors 49
The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. Katharine Hepburn Actors 47
The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakespeare, and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul. Minnie Maddern Fiske Actors 47

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