Actor Quotes

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I'm a ballplayer, not an actor. — Joe DiMaggio
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character. — Jean-Louis Barrault
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. — David Morse
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is… — Benjamin Bratt
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a… — William Mapother
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of… — Bill Anderson
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. — Robert Benchley
The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him. — Sanford Meisner
An actors' tribute to me is in his work. — Lee Strasberg
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. — Lee Strasberg
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel — Constantin Stanislavski
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… — Pauline Kael
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances. — Sanford Meisner
There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the actor,… — Manny Farber
What does an actor know about politics? — Ronald Reagan
You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off. — Ronald Reagan
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors… — Debbie Allen
It is the writerâ€™s job to make the play interesting. It is the actorâ€™s job to make the performance truthful. — David Mamet
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has… — Sidney Lumet

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