Acting - Actors Quotes

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.

It is greatly to Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s credit that, bad as the play was, her acting was worse.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people.

Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

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.