Actors quotes

“- Tommy Max: I'm very sorry, I...
- Walt Price: You're very sorry, you passive-aggressive, son of a bitch... Can we replace him?
- Bill Smith: We start shooting in three days.”

Jim Frangione - Tommy Max
William H. Macy - Walt Price
Lionel Mark Smith - Bill Smith

“- Alan Swann: I haven't performed in front of an audience in 28 years! Audience? I played a butler. I had one line! I forgot it.
- Benjy Stone: Don't worry, this is gonna be easy.
- Alan Swann: For you, maybe. Not for me. I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!”
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”
Candice Bergen

“Certainly most movie executives were making love to the starlets. But then, so were most of us actors.”
Richard Burton

“I'm only a product like a cake of soap. To be sold as well as possible.”
Charles Bronson

“I was a fourteen-year-old boy for thirty years.”
Mickey Rooney

“She stole everything but the cameras.”

George Raft On Mae West

“Sometimes an actor is intelligent enough to overcome his limitations and discover for himself the proper path to follow — that is, he uses his own intelligence . . . When this happens, he has the qualities of a director.”
Michelangelo Antonioni

“Directing her was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.”
Otto Preminger On Marilyn Monroe

“The actor who thinks too much is troubled by one ambition: to be great. This is a terrible obstacle and it carries with it the risk that his playing may be deprived of much of its truthfulness.”
Michelangelo Antonioni

“Jane has survived more bad movies than any actress should be able to in a lifetime.”
Henry Fonda On Jane Seymour Fonda

“The best actors do not let the wheels show. This is the hardest kind of acting, and it works only if you look as if you are not acting at all.”
Henry Fonda

“I'm too tired and old and rich for all this, so let's do the scene.”

Spencer Tracy

“The physical labour actors have to do wouldn't tax an embryo.”
Spencer Tracy

“People ask me 'how come you been around so long?' Well, it's through playing the part of Mr. Average Joe American.”
Gary Cooper

“Until I came along, all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”
Gary Cooper

“I was the first star who ever came out of the water looking wet.”
Bette Davis

“A lot of young directors really don't understand actors, how to work with them. They're into techniques, effects.”
Robert De Niro

“There's nothing so offensive to me as watching an actor with his ego.”
Robert De Niro

“After my first movies, I gave interviews. Then I thought, 'What's so important about where I went to school, and hobbies... What does any of that have to do with acting, with my own head?' Nothing.”
Robert De Niro

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
Charlton Heston On Cecil Blount DeMille

“Like cutting Tolstoy's beard so he wouldn't write any revolutionary novels.”

Lionel Barrymore On Greta Garbo, Louis Burt Mayer

“Once I get a hold of a character, get a hold of their essence, I'm just as excited the next time I create it.”
Lily Tomlin

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy