Acting Quote by Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

— Marilyn Monroe

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.

— James Dean

Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most…

— Marilyn Monroe

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite…

— Melissa Leo

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're…

— Tatiana Maslany

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you…

— Masi Oka

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let…

— Penelope Wilton

An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking…

— Clemence Poesy

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with…

— Jimmy Smits

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.

— Martin Freeman

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem…

— Nicole Kidman

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a…

— Chris Messina