Actors quotes

“I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face. If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll do something about it.”
Grace Kelly

“Actually I never felt I would succeed on the screen. This I must face, I'm not the greatest beauty in the world.”
Jennifer Jones

“I really look so different off the screen that at a recent luncheon a certain prominent Hollywood actress who sat next to me didn't recognize me and all through luncheon accepted me as a girl apparently trying to break into pictures and gave me words of advice and warning. But when someone told her my name was Merle Oberon she became embarassed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Oberon

“The most important development for a girl ambitious for a screen career, is development of the mind. She should be interested in music. She should read fine books, learn to dance, and possibly study for one of the sciences.”
Jean Harlow

“Garbo had an icy look in her eyes when anyone sought to impose upon her, as, according to studio gossip, Groucho Marx discovered one day. He saw a well-known figure approaching in slacks and floppy hat, waylaid her, bent down in his famous crouch and peeked up under the brim. Two prisms of pure Baltic blue stared down at him, and he backed away...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Niven On Greta Garbo

“When I was young, MGM was a very exciting place to be. I've always loved movie stars, loved movies, loved everything about them except doing them. It was so tremendously thrilling to go into the commissary for lunch. They were all there - Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr. And there was the lovely, sweet smell of the puncake...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor On Clark Gable

“Some of my best friends are actors.”
Kirk Douglas

“All the time I was in Berlin Garbo was my favorite. I only had Sunday afternoon free; I was playing, rehearsing all the other time. So on Sunday afternoons I used to go to see Garbo's pictures. I followed them from one theater to another; maybe sometimes I saw one five or six times. And when I came to America I thought perhaps I will meet her. I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Marlene Dietrich On Greta Garbo

“She had this terrible disadvantage when she started out. She was quite the most beautiful actress in London.”

George Cukor

“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
John Barrymore

“People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.”
Terry Gilliam

Just recently I got asked to do a film where the guy was exactly the same age as me and they go, "No, she's too old."
Daryl Hannah

Like "Gone With the Wind", [Greta] Garbo is monumentally overrated. Her voice is deep, she has no humor, her figure is flat, her carriage is not graceful, her feet are big, her private life is a fog. Only her face is perfect.
Alfred Hitchcock On Greta Garbo

“I'm not buying a Gulfstream jet just because Arnold Schwarzenegger has one. That would be silly. I'm not that competitive or materialistic. But I bet my jet will have more special features than his.”
Tim Allen

“I have no bad feelings about actors getting $20 million a picture or more. They won't give you a dime in this town unless you can make them a dollar. No producer is going to give anybody $20 million if he doesn't think he's going to make much more.”
Rod Steiger

“I was twenty-one and Platoon had just won Best Picture and grossed $100 million. Suddenly you're not paying for meals or drinks. You don't drive any more. You get success. The more money you make, the less people want you to spend. It's very bizarre.”
Charlie Sheen

The executives who read the script say: "Well, the main character is not very likeable." So without changing what the main character says or does, when I introduce them, I write "Betty, a very likeable person," then they go, "Oh, these changes are wonderful! She really comes alive!" I do that all the time.
Don Roos

“- Michael Chapman: I'm something of a celebrity.
- Driver: What kind of celebrity are you, Asshole of the Month?
- Michael Chapman: No, that's all political.”
Michael J. Fox - Michael Chapman
Mario Todisco - Driver

If I ever start talking to you about "my craft" or "my instrument," you have permission to shoot me point-blank.
Drew Barrymore

“To become a good actor, you have to keep watching, and if you see nothing worth copying, you'll see something to avoid.”
Al Pacino

“For the most part, young actors in Hollywood are actors by default. They're morons.”
Matt Damon

“I'm a whore, all actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.”
William M. Holden

“My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”
Sir Roger Moore

“Listen, I got three expressions: looking left, looking right, and looking straight ahead.”
Robert Mitchum

“The reason I'm doing Shakespeare is to see if today's audiences can still relate to that. I'm not old or English, or anything, so this'll prove it once and for all.”
Keanu Reeves