Actor Quote by Lauren Bacall

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names -…

— Ann Sothern

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why…

— James Denton

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

— Ava Gardner

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

— Olivia De Havilland

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no…

— Laura Prepon

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater…

— Martha Plimpton

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph…

— Lauren Bacall

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities…

— J. D. Salinger

I know that people get cast based on how they look in Hollywood.

— Corey Hawkins

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much…

— Pixie Lott

Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the…

— Scott Raab