That’s what show business is – sincere insincerity.
Acting - Actors Quotes
Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.
Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
A professional amateur. (Marilyn Monroe)
Stay out of jail. (Advice to young filmmakers)
I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
It’s not true that I said “actors are cattle.” I said “they should be treated like cattle.”
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. To do this, it is imperative that you reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience, and expose yourself… Rosalind Russell […]
