Actors Quotes

• "On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting:
   'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. "
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his rattle to be tedious."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Have patience with the jealousies and petulances of actors, for their hour is their eternity."
  By: Richard Garnett
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• "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
  By: Elizabeth Taylor
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• "The stock actor is a stage calamity."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time."
  By: Elvis Presley
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• "Acting is pretending to be someone else."
  By: Anna Paquin, in the London "Guardian"
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• "To be an actor you have to be a child."
  By: Paul Newman
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• "The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Actors are cattle."
  By: Alfred Hitchcock, in the "Saturday Evening Post"
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• "An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
  By: Whoopi Goldberg, quoted on the "Today" television show
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• "We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has."
  By: Clint Eastwood
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• "The better the actor the more stupid he is."
  By: Truman Capote
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• "An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
  By: Marlon Brando
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