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ACTING QUOTES

quotations about acting

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

MARLON BRANDO, New York Times, Jul. 2, 2004

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

ETHEL BARRYMORE, George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the Fifties

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

PAUL NEWMAN, Time Magazine, Dec. 6, 1982

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

EDWARD ALBEE, WNBC TV interview, Jan. 9, 1966

A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

SARAH BERNHARDT, The Art of the Theatre

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

ADRIEN BRODY, Men's Health, Dec. 2005

For almost every character I’ve played in the 43 years I’ve been working as a professional actor, I’ve found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

SALLY FIELD, Ability Magazine, Feb. 2009

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

ANTONIN ARTAUD, The Theatre and Its Double

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for the custard pie.

KATHARINE HEPBURN, Colin Jarman's The Book of Poisonous Quotes

When I connect to my soul, project it into another character, and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of acting. It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

KYRA SEDGWICK, Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007

Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER, Sam Magazine, 2005

I find that’s one of the great things about acting—you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes, whether it’s someone with mental health problems or someone who lives and works in a small town. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

SALLY FIELD, Ability Magazine, Feb. 2009

Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

JESSICA ALBA, Elle Magazine, Dec. 2010

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

BRAM STOKER, Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

GEORGE BURNS

To be an actor, you have to be a child.

PAUL NEWMAN, attributed, Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures

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