Actors quotes
709 actors quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in About Colleagues
“Brando was deeply rebellious against the bourgeois spirit, the over-ordering of life. Dean represented the release of anger against parents, resentment at the failure of parents to understand. Brando was happily arrogant, a free spirit. Dean was sad and sulky, you kept
expecting him to cry. De Niro is a number of things all at once. There are...” (continue)(continue reading) “In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'. ”
- La trovi in Gossip
“Someone once said interviews are like thumbprints on your windpipe. That's kinda how I feel.”
- La trovi in Gossip
“All young actors dream of success, but it's a bitter kind of thing for man, you lose the most valuable thing in the world, privacy.”
“I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
- From the movie: Singin' in the Rain
“- Don Lockwood: Tell me the truth, am I a good actor?
- Cosmo Brown: As long as I'm working for Monumental Pictures, you're the greatest of 'em all.” - From the movie: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
“I believe it's the job of an actor - and I say actor, not actress because the word actress is nonsensical - it's the actor's job to avoid impediments to their performance. It's the actor's job to strive for one hundred percent effectiveness.”
- From the movie: Murder Mystery
“- Nick Spitz: You're an actress, right?
- Grace Ballard: All women are actresses, dear. I'm just clever enough to get paid for it.” “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
- From the movie: Rough Cut
“- Gillian Bromley: That was the worst Peter Sellers I have ever heard.
- Jack Rhodes: I wasn't doing Peter Sellers - I was doing Peter Sellers doing Omar Sharif!” “Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“I'm a Utopian anarchist — which means nothing. You know, the intellectuals take over and the government crumbles. I'm a less than convincing dilettante, much less an intellectual. I go to the store for a loaf of bread and come back with a quart of milk. So I act. To compensate for this indignity they put roses in the dressing room on the first...” (continue)(continue reading)
- La trovi in Money and Actors
“I am paid not to think.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“Make up your mind dearheart. Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?”
“A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“John Ford isn't exactly a bum, is he? Yet he never gave me any manure about art. He just made movies and that's what I do.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“He's full of emotion and agony. If he says, ‘Pass the salt’, it’s like the scene where Oedipus puts out his eyes.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
“Aren’t they beautiful? And I’ve had every one of them.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
- La trovi in Insults
“That dame is too uptight. What she needs is a good screw from a man who knows how to do it.”
- La trovi in Insults
“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying 'Shucks, I ain't no actor—I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.' If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.”
“You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?”
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