2,050 Quotes About Actors




  • Author Stella Adler
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    The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

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  • Author Sylvia Kristel
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    I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

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  • Author Lee Marvin
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    [To actor Strother Martin] You know, as character actors we play all kinds of sex psychos, nuts, creeps, perverts, and weirdos. And we laugh it off, saying what the hell it's just a character. But deep down inside, it's you, baby.

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  • Author Stella Adler
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    ...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

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