Acting Quotes

• "I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it."
  By: Lilli Palmer
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• "You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something."
  By: Kenneth Haigh
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• "The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good."
  By: Billy Zane
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• "Actors are one family over the entire world."
  By: Alfre Woodard
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• "If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
  By: Elijah Wood
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• "I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
  By: Thornton Wilder
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• "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."
  By: Forest Whitaker
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• "If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
  By: Bill Vaughan
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• "I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."
  By: Skeet Ulrich
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• "There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails."
  By: Spencer Tracy
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• "I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches."
  By: Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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• "Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- "the three I s" -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination."
  By: Ellen Terry
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• "Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door."
  By: Konstantin Stanislavisky
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• "I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works."
  By: Sylvester Stallone
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• "I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
  By: Kevin Spacey
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