Acting Quotes

• "The best actors do not let the wheels show."
  By: Henry Fonda
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• "The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
  By: Minnie Fiske
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• "Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace."
  By: Eugene Field
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• "Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."
  By: Marguerite Duras
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• "I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
  By: Elaine Dundy
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• "I find myself fascinating."
  By: Richard Dryfus
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• "I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, "They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes."
  By: Minnie Driver
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• "I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep."
  By: Denis Diderot
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• "The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."
  By: Bette Davis
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• "You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else."
  By: Sammy Davis Jr.
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• "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."
  By: Marion Davies
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• "I am the Fred Astaire of karate."
  By: Jean-Claude Van Damme
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• "Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]"
  By: Vincent D'Onofrio
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• "Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor."
  By: John Cusack
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• "I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
  By: Glenn Close
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• "An actor is only merchandise."
  By: Chow Yun-Fat
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