Quote: You are not in business to be popular.
Author: Kirstie Alley 1951-, American Actress
Quote: We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Quote: The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Author: Alec Baldwin 1958-, American Actor
Quote: Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Author: Ellen Barkin 1954-, American Actress
Quote: For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Author: Ethel Barrymore 1879-1959, American Actress
Quote: The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Author: Roland Barthes 1915-1980, French Semiologist
Quote: For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Author: Sarah Bernhardt 1844-1923, French Actress
Quote: Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Author: Marlon Brando 1924-, American Actor, Director
Quote: To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Author: Marlon Brando 1924-, American Actor, Director
Quote: The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.
Author: Brandy 1979-, American Actress
Quote: A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Author: Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet
Quote: One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Author: Robert Bresson 1907-, French Film Director
Quote: The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good.
Author: Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook 1925-, British Theatre and Film Director
Quote: From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, ''You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been.'' Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.
Author: Pierce Brosnan 1952-, Irish-born American Actor
Quote: When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
Author: Steve Buscemi 1952-, American Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter
Quote: I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Author: Michael Caine 1933-, British-born American Actor, Acting teacher
Quote: Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]
Author: Bruce Campbell
Quote: The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
Author: Thomas Campbell 1777-1844, Scottish Poet
Quote: Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
Author: Jim Carrey 1962-, Canadian-born American Comedian, Actor
Quote: The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Author: Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker
Quote: Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Author: Chevy Chase 1943-, American Actor
Quote: When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
Author: Anton Chekhov 1860-1904, Russian Playwright, Short Story Writer
Quote: An actor is only merchandise.
Author: Chow Yun-Fat 1955-, Hong Kong Actor
Quote: I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Author: Glenn Close 1947-, American Actress
Quote: To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Author: John Cusack 1966-, American Actor, Playwright, Producer, Stage director
Quote: I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Author: Jean-Claude Van Damme 1960-, Belgian-born American Actor
Quote: Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Author: Marion Davies 1897-1961, American Actress
Quote: You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
Author: Sammy Davis Jr. 1925-1990, American Actor, Dancer, Singer
Quote: The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Author: Bette Davis 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher
Quote: Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]
Author: Vincent D'Onofrio 1959-, American Actor, Producer
Quote: I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Author: Minnie Driver 1971-, British-born American Actress, Guitarist, Singer
Quote: I find myself fascinating.
Author: Richard Dryfus American Actor
Quote: I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Author: Elaine Dundy
Quote: Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Author: Eugene Field 1850-1895, American Writer
Quote: Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor
Quote: The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Author: Minnie Fiske
Quote: The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Author: Henry Fonda 1905-1982, American Movie & Stage Actor
Quote: A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Author: Jane Fonda 1937-, American Screen Actor
Quote: You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Author: Jane Fonda 1937-, American Screen Actor
Quote: I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]
Author: Harrison Ford 1942-, American Actor
Quote: The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Author: Edwin Forrest
Quote: I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Author: Judy Garland 1922-1969, American Actress, Singer
Quote: If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Author: Boy George British Rock Musician
Quote: An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Author: George Glass
Quote: Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Author: Jeff Goldblum 1952-, American Actor, Acting teacher
Quote: Acting is happy agony.
Author: Sir Alec Guiness 1914-, British Actor
Quote: More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Author: Uta Hagen
Quote: Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Author: Robert Half American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & Associates
Quote: A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.
Author: Daryl Hannah 1960-, American Actress
Quote: They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Author: Katharine Hepburn 1907-, American Actress, Writer
Quote: I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Author: Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker
Quote: You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Author: Ron Howard 1954-, American Director, Actor, Producer
Quote: I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Author: Holly Hunter 1958-, American Actress
Quote: Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
Author: John Huston 1906-1987, American Film Director
Quote: Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Author: Jeremy Irons 1948-, British-born American Actor
Quote: In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Author: Glenda Jackson 1936-, British Actress and politician
Quote: Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Author: Glenda Jackson 1936-, British Actress and politician
Quote: I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
Author: Elton John 1947-, British Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Author: Alva Johnson
Quote: Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Author: Patrick Kavanagh 1905-1967, Irish Poet, Author
Quote: I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.
Author: Kevin Kline 1947-, American Actor, Stage director
Quote: I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Author: Angela Lansbury 1925-, British-born American Actress
Quote: I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Author: Lucy Lawless 1968-, New Zealander Actress
Quote: I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.
Author: TTa Leoni 1966-, American Actress
Quote: The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Author: Daniel Day Lewis British-born American Actor
Quote: You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
Author: Daniel Day Lewis British-born American Actor
Quote: People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Author: Juliette Lewis 1973-, American Actress
Quote: We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, ''Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?''
Author: Micheal Macliammoir
Quote: It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Author: John Malkovich
Quote: I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Author: Marcel Marceau 1923-, French Mime Artist
Quote: After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Author: Frances McDormand
Quote: Actors die so loud.
Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
Author: Robert Mitchum 1917-1997, American Actor
Quote: I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Author: Mary Tyler Moore 1936-, American Actress
Quote: Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Author: Roger Moore 1927-, British-born American Actor
Quote: Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Author: Jeanne Moreau 1928-, French Actress and Director Quote: Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist. Author: Jeanne Moreau 1928-, French Actress and Director
Quote: Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Author: Paul Newman 1925-, American Actor, Director, Philanthropist, Producer
Quote: Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
Author: Lena Olin 1955-, Swedish-born American-born American Actress
Quote: I have to act to live.
Author: Sir Lawrence Olivier 1907-1989, British Actor, Producer, Director
Quote: The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Author: Al Pacino 1940-, American Actor, Director
Quote: Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clichT. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.
Author: Camille Paglia 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator
Quote: She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Author: Dorothy Parker 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer
Quote: You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker 1965-, American Actress
Quote: All men practice the actor's art.
Author: Petron
Quote: Ah just act the way ah feel.
Author: Elvis Presley 1935-1977, American Singer, Actor
Quote: I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.
Author: Vincent Price 1911-1993, American Actor and Writer
Quote: I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Author: Monty Python
Quote: In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Author: Anthony Quinn American Actor
Quote: I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Author: Nancy Reagan 1923-, American First Lady, Wife of Former U.S. President, Ronald Reagan
Quote: A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Author: Robert Redford 1937-, American Actor, Director, Producer
Quote: Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
Author: Thomas Reid 1710-1769, Scottish Philosopher
Quote: Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Author: Miranda Richardson
Quote: There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Author: Ginger Rogers 1911-1995, American Actress
Quote: I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]
Author: Tom Selleck 1945-, American Actor
Quote: Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
Author: Norma Shearer 1900-1983, Canadian-born American Actress
Quote: Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Author: Donald Sinden 1923-, British Actor
Quote: An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Author: Donald Sinden 1923-, British Actor
Quote: You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
Author: Mira Sorvino 1970-, American Actress
Quote: I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Author: Kevin Spacey 1959-, American Actor, Director, Producer Quote: I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Author: Sylvester Stallone 1946-, American Actor, Writer, Director, Producer
Quote: A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky 1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher
Quote: Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- ''the three I s'' -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Author: Ellen Terry
Quote: I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
Author: Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981-, American Actor, Teen heartthrob
Quote: There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Author: Spencer Tracy 1900-1967, American Film Actor
Quote: I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
Author: Skeet Ulrich 1970-, American Actor
Quote: If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Author: Bill Vaughan 1915-1977, American Author, Journalist
Quote: Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Author: Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker
Quote: I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Author: Forest Whitaker 1961-, American Actor, Director
Quote: I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Author: Elijah Wood 1981-, American Actor
Quote: Actors are one family over the entire world.
Author: Alfre Woodard 1953-, American Actress
Quote: The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Author: Billy Zane 1966-, American Actor