Acting quotes

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. (John Ford)

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. (Bette Davis)

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. (Bette Davis)

Unlike writers or painters, we don’t sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, ‘How do I start? Where do I start?’ We’re given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there’s a group of people all ready to make a film and it’s a marvelous life. (Albert Finney)

When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams. (Anton Chekhov)

Acting is frivolous, but frivolity is a big part of our society; so we might as well relax and enjoy it. (Jane Fonda)

If there wasn’t something called acting they would probably hospitalize people like me. The giddiness and the joy of life is the moving and grooving, the exploration. (Whoopi Goldberg)

You’re an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational — and probably sexual! ( George Herman)

Pray to God and say the lines. ( Bette Davis, Advice to the actress Celeste Holm. Attrib.)

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