Acting And Actors

(41 votes)   Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Thomas Reid
1710-1769, Scottish Philosopher

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(41 votes)   Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Lena Olin
1955-, Swedish-born American-born American Actress

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(40 votes)   It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

John Malkovich

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(40 votes)   People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Juliette Lewis
1973-, American Actress

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(40 votes)   The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Minnie Fiske

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(40 votes)   You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Mira Sorvino
1970-, American Actress

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(39 votes)   I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.

TTa Leoni
1966-, American Actress

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(39 votes)   The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Henry Fonda
1905-1982, American Movie & Stage Actor

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(39 votes)   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.

Billy Zane
1966-, American Actor

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(37 votes)   There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Spencer Tracy
1900-1967, American Film Actor

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(37 votes)   You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

Ron Howard
1954-, American Director, Actor, Producer

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(36 votes)   A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Konstantin Stanislavisky
1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher

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(36 votes)   I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!

Angela Lansbury
1925-, British-born American Actress

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(36 votes)   You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

Sarah Jessica Parker
1965-, American Actress

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(34 votes)   We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, ''Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?''

Micheal Macliammoir

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