Acting And Actors

(346 votes)   We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(336 votes)   From fifty feet away, even with the lights all over it, you're not gonna see it.

Anonymous

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(312 votes)   The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Thomas Campbell
1777-1844, Scottish Poet

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(304 votes)   The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis
1908-1989, American Actress, Producer

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(300 votes)   The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(268 votes)   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.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(263 votes)   To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(252 votes)   You are not in business to be popular.

Kirstie Alley
1951-, American Actress

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(237 votes)   Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(222 votes)   The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Charlie Chaplin
1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker

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(205 votes)   An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Alva Johnson

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(201 votes)   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.

John Huston
1906-1987, American Film Director

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(198 votes)   In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author

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(181 votes)   I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.

Kevin Kline
1947-, American Actor, Stage director

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(163 votes)   I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]

Tom Selleck
1945-, American Actor

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