Quotes about Actors
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"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."
-Alfred North Whitehead
-Alfred North Whitehead
"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
-Jack Lemon
-Jack Lemon
"Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not."
-Jenny Mccarthy
-Jenny Mccarthy
"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."
-Alec Guinness
-Alec Guinness
"The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day."
-Leonardo Dicaprio
-Leonardo Dicaprio
"I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man."
-Rupert Everett
-Rupert Everett
"Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one."
-Roddy Mcdowall
-Roddy Mcdowall
"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
-Dustin Hoffman
-Dustin Hoffman
"Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too."
-Ninon de Lenclos
-Ninon de Lenclos
"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
-Alec Guinness
-Alec Guinness
"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
-Omar Bradley
-Omar Bradley
"Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop."
-Jack Nicholson
-Jack Nicholson
"Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today."
-Kirsten Dunst
-Kirsten Dunst
"I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!"
-Josh Hartnett
-Josh Hartnett
"Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do."
-Alyssa Milano
-Alyssa Milano
"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop."
-Reese Witherspoon
-Reese Witherspoon
"An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents."
-Alec Guinness
-Alec Guinness
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
-Michael Caine
-Michael Caine
"...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?"
-Cary Grant
-Cary Grant
"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."
-William Manchester
-William Manchester
"If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor."
-Joseph P. Kennedy
-Joseph P. Kennedy
"A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea."
-Walter Kerr
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-Walter Kerr
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