Acting - Actors Quotes

You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, ‘She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!’

When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.

Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

When they are young, nubile Hollywood actresses all utter the same idiotic cliches about the artistic value of nudity in movies. Then they expect us to feel sorry for them when parts dry up after they become old and start to sag. Live by the breast, die by the breast.

Our Garrick’s a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree.