Actors quotes

“Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.”
Jack Lemmon

“I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”
Jack Lemmon

“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.”
Jack Lemmon

“I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.”
Burt Lancaster

“I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.”
Alan Ladd

“I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.”
Alan Ladd

“She talked badly. Not dirty. I mean when she was called to set she’d yell, ‘I ain’t ready!’ That kind of bad. She was actually a prude. Innuendo was her game and not explicitness.”
Cary Grant On Mae West

“I was such a new star he could have ended my career within fifteen minutes after I walked out of that office. I had no interest in being a waiter.”

Clark Gable

“Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.”
Clark Gable On Marilyn Monroe

“It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.”
Glenn Ford

“An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.”
Glenn Ford

“I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.”
Gary Cooper

“I've made 122 movies, and I dare say there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.”
Tony Curtis

“Brando has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
Richard Burton On Marlon Brando

“She is as beautiful as an erotic dream. Tall and extremely large-bosomed. Tremendously long legs. They go up to her shoulders, practically. Beautiful brown eyes, set in a marvellously vulpine, almost satanic face.”
Richard Burton On Sophia Loren

“The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.”
Richard Burton

“Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.”
Charlton Heston On Clint Eastwood

“He agreed with me. What I didn’t tell him was that I just couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I’d had enough of the mumbo-jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) to me.”

Alec Guinness On George Lucas

“Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.”
Alec Guinness

“We had an affair and saw each other intermittently until she died in 1962… she didn’t seem depressed to me. I’m sure she didn’t commit suicide. I have always believed that she was murdered.”
Marlon Brando On Marilyn Monroe

“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
Marlon Brando

“An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.”
Marlon Brando

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
Marlon Brando

“When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.”
James Dean

“Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals.”
James Dean