Actors Quote by Bette Davis

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and…

— Christian Slater

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

— Jeffrey Wright

“What a lot of failed and mediocre actors do not realize, probably because it is ironic, is that the key to being a great…

— Jack Freestone

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

— Dervla Kirwan

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put…

— Erika Eleniak

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

— Steve Albini

As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to…

— Josh Holloway

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck