Ability Quote by Samantha Morton

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

— Vittorio Gassman

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of…

— Colin Firth

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

— Michael Shurtleff

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

— Tom Baker

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

— Eileen Brennan

As an actor, you just can't do stuff you don't believe in.

— Mohnish Bahl

We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get…

— Brad Anderson

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing,…

— Clare Bowen

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are…

— Mike Nichols

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

— Gary Oldman

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

— Michael Caine