Don’t get married to an actress because they’re also actresses in bed.
Acting - Actors Quotes
Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much. (Advice on acting)
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it’s easy to have glory without power. The people who enjoy the greatest glory in the United States are film stars, but they can be put in their place by the committee for Un-American Activities, which enjoys no glory whatever.
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the drawl, the squint, and a way of moving which meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not.
I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and all other female impersonators.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (1927)
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (Hamlet)
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
