Actor Quote by Tallulah Bankhead Download Open image “In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.” — Tallulah Bankhead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actor Disease Lying Lying Looked Occupational Disease Theater Theater Lying Theatre
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw… — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Acting is suggesting, the art lies in leaving room for the audience to identify. — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed. — Peter Cincotti Copy Share Image
“Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If people act like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
