Confidence Quote by Patricia Bosworth

“Some situations recognize me as a good actor though I want to be true to everyone!”

— Nelson Jack

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”

— John Geddes

“It might be beneficial for him occasionally to be reminded that I work for myself. That he was a stagehand, not one of the…

— Barry Eisler

“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one was for…

— Haruki Murakami

“Now I have something to tell you," her brother said. "Every time I've had to take part in anything with other people, something of…

— Robert Musil

“The great actors always play themselves.”

— Scott Farris

“You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different character than…

— Édouard Levé

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.…

— Sarah Bernhardt

“Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long before they…

— Morris Panych

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

“needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a…

— Rachel Joyce

“We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But…

— Jeanette Murray