Acting Quotes

• "First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
  By: Michael Caine
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• "Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for."
  By: Glenda Jackson
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• "Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."
  By: Jeremy Irons
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• "Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."
  By: Aldous Huxley
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• "Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it."
  By: John Huston
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• "I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
  By: Holly Hunter
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• "You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer."
  By: Ron Howard
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• "I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
  By: Alfred Hitchcock
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• "If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."
  By: Katharine Hepburn
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• "We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all."
  By: William Hazlitt
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• "A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there."
  By: Daryl Hannah
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• "An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
  By: George Glass
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• "If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
  By: Boy George
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• "I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."
  By: Judy Garland
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• "I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]"
  By: Harrison Ford
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• "The best actors do not let the wheels show."
  By: Henry Fonda
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