Actor Quotes

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I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. — Lauren Bacall
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. — Ram Dass
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,… — Milan Kundera
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's… — Barack Obama
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. — Mignon McLaughlin
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterdayâ€™s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of… — Daphne du Maurier
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau… — James Sallis
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think… — Oscar Wilde
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there… — P.G. Wodehouse
Trust me, baby, you werenâ€™t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor… — Ann Coulter
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star. — Sloane Crosley
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov
One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is… — Alan Watts
...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you… — Ewan McGregor
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right.… — Ridley Pearson
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and… — Honore de Balzac

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