Best Actors And Acting Quotes
70 Actors And Acting quotes by 55 unique authors
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
— Richard M. Nixon
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My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not…
— Will Smith
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
— Barbra Streisand
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a…
— Simone Weil
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
— Orson Welles
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
— Thornton Wilder
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Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.
— Joan Crawford
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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want…
— Marilyn Monroe
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short,…
— Alec Guinness
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In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is…
— Washington Irving
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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack…
— Marilyn Monroe
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My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing…
— Unknown Author
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Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am…
— Adolf Hitler
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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion…
— Robert Anderson
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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…
— Ethel Barrymore
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When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has…
— Fred Allen
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When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
— Albert Pike
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being…
— James Dean
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The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.
— Lao Tzu
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Fall seven times and stand up eight.
— Japanese Proverb
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Just keep moving forward and dont give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
— Orebela Gbenga
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But now it feels like weve been traveling on two different tracks. What? Put my hands in the air? Okay. (Raises hands in the air.)…
— Rayy
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