Acting - Actors Quotes

I’m lucky the business I’m in is just forced empathy, because you are constantly putting yourself in the shoes of somebody else.

The majority of great actresses met tragic ends. When I said goodbye to this job, to this life of opulence and glitter, images and adoration, the quest to be desired, I was saving my life.

Not trying to take all the credit for Lizzie McGuire, but I am very much Lizzie McGuire, and she is very much me.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I am here today demanding that Attorney-General Tom Clark institute proceedings to deport Charlie Chaplin. He has refused to become an American citizen. His very life in Hollywood is detrimental to the moral fabric of America. In that way he can be kept off the American screen and his loathsome pictures can be kept from […]

I think every actress in the world looked up to her (Katharine Hepburn) with a kind of reverence and a sense of, ‘Oh, boy, if only I could be like her.’ We never looked at her with envy or jealousy because she worked with such grace and wit and charm. You only wish that one […]

The world’s a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

Learn your lines and don’t trip over the furniture.

Let the actor beware!