Actors quotes

“I'm a professional. I've done pretty well, don't you think? I've survived in a pretty rough business.”
Humphrey Bogart

“I was always the guy behind the guy behind the gun.”

Humphrey Bogart

“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”

Boris Karloff

“The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great — and they know I know it.”
Clark Gable

“I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.”
Clark Gable

“My talent falls within definite limits. I'm not a versatile actress.”
Greta Garbo

“He's a very, very bad actor, but he absolutely loves doing it.”

David Niven

“She is a ten-year-old girl who has put on her mother's dress — and has done it convincingly.”
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. On Joan Crawford

“I was fortunate to be born with a set of characteristics that were in the public vogue.”
Katharine Hepburn

“People think actresses find public-speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.”
Jane Seymour Fonda

“The important thing for a star is to have an interesting face. He doesn't have to move it very much. Editing and camerawork can always produce the desired illusion that a performance is being given.”
George Sanders

“Actors live in a cocoon of praise. They never meet the people who don't like them.”
Robert Morley

“Marilyn Monroe was a professional amateur.”
Laurence Olivier On Marilyn Monroe

“Invested with great words or with the majesty of a noble thought, the actor is often confused with the source of power; once deprived of that which makes him seem magnificent he deflated like an empty windbag.”
Josef von Sternberg

“They're lucky if they don't stay in it long and if they don't learn.”

George Cukor

“Joan Crawford was one of the people that made Hollywood the place that touched the imagination of the world.”
George Cukor On Joan Crawford

“I'm interested in people, the way they behave. Other directors get their effects by showing doorknobs being turned, things like that. I like to concentrate on the actors' faces.”
George Cukor

“Any of my indiscretions were with people, not actresses.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“Separate the art from the artist. This is L.A., nobody's ever who they appear to be. Other than John Tesh, who's probably exactly who he appears to be.”
Eric McCormack - Mark

“I have complete control over everything I do. A year or two back, this was considered to be some kind of victory of Art over Tyranny. Now I'm not so sure.”
Gregory Peck

“I've never worked with an actor who was less conscious of his good image.”
Don Siegel On Clint Eastwood

“Ah, that sad and bewildering moment when you are no longer the cherished darling, but must turn the corner and try to be funny.”
Billie Burke

“Every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.”
Charles Laughton

“I didn't know you ever had, darling.”

John Barrymore On Katharine Hepburn

“If you stay in front of that camera long enough, it will show you not only what you had for breakfast but who your ancestors were.”
John Barrymore