Actors quotes

“To be a success an actress must have the face of Venus, the brain of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory or Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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Ethel Barrymore

“We've had World War I, World War II, and now this Korean War—everywhere in America, in practically every home, there's some family with a veteran who was wounded. So I asked John, why does Gregory Peck have to have one leg?
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Harry Morris Warner On Gregory Peck

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
Harry Morris Warner

“Garbo's temperament reflected the rain and gloom of the long dark Swedish winters.”
Lillian Gish On Greta Garbo

“- King: How come you have a blond, blue-eyed slave?
- The Sheik: He's an actor. Hasn't had a series in seven years.
- The Slapper: Nine.”
Ricardo Montalban - King
Jamie Farr - The Sheik
Doug McClure - The Slapper

“Judging by the initial press reaction, I wasn’t sure whether I was going to produce and direct a motion picture or referee a fight.”

Robert Aldrich On Joan Crawford, Bette Davis

“I’m actually less Latin than Cameron Diaz, whose father is from Cuba. But she’s not getting called a Latin actress because she’s got blonde hair and blue eyes. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don’t speak Spanish. So, to say that I’m a Latin actress, OK, but it’s not fitting; it would be insincere.”

Jessica Alba

“My heart is broken. I’ve lost the best pal anyone ever had.”

Bud Abbott On Lou Costello

“Gable’s an idiot. You know why he’s an actor? It’s the only thing he’s smart enough to do.”
John Wayne On Clark Gable

“By the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.”
Rod Steiger

“Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again.”
Basil Rathbone

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.”
James Stewart

“Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.”
Tony Randall On Marilyn Monroe

“I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.”
Tony Randall On Johnny Carson

“We have too many actors for the jobs available.”
Tony Randall

“Maureen and I were not meant to be married. Something always came up to keep us apart, a picture, or another affair, or some problem in the timing. Every once in a while, we landed on the same picture – Against All Flags, The Magnificent Matador – and resumed our affair.”

Anthony Quinn

“An empty-headed blonde with a fat rear. Oh, Marilyn was pretty enough to look at, but there were hundreds of better-looking actresses poking around Hollywood.”
Anthony Quinn On Marilyn Monroe

“I was the only actor who never tried to have sex with Linda Darnell, and the only one to have resisted her advances.”

Anthony Quinn

“He was no soft touch… you had to prove yourself. Above all, you had to demonstrate conclusively to his satisfaction that you were no phony.”
David Niven On Humphrey Bogart

“A great lady. It’s quite an achievement to spend that long in Hollywood and not become a Hollywood product.”
David Niven On Audrey Hepburn

“Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.”
Leslie William Nielsen On Laurence Olivier

“Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.”
Paul Newman

“Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality.”
Walter Matthau

“I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.”
Robert Mitchum

“Difficult? Yes. But she was a wonderful comedienne and she had a charisma like no-one before or since. She wasn’t that enormously talented, but her gift was knowing how to use the special kind of talent she had to great advantage.”
Jack Lemmon On Marilyn Monroe