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| Alexander Woollcott | The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up. | |
| Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) | I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle | |
| Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) | Scratch an actor -- and you'll find an actress. | |
| Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) | She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - (on Katherine Hepburn) | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | When I asked him, "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost?" He answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Speaks of respeting actors, “What, Sir, (respect) a fellow who claps a lump on his back, and a lump on his leg, and cries 'I am Richard the Third'? Nay, Sir, a ballad singer is a higher man, for he does two things; he repeats and he sings: there is both recitation and musick in his performance: the player only recites." | |
| Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) | An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | I do not want actors and acresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results. | |
| George Sanders | An actor is not quite a human being -- but then who is? | |
| John Ford | Actors are crap. | |
| Louise Brooks | Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. | |
| Marlon Brando | An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. | |
| Marlon Brando | If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. | |
| Michael Wilding | You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. | |
| Neil Simon | The physical labor actors have to do wouldn't tax an embryo. | |
| Oliver Herford | Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. | |
| Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) | Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him | |
| Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972) | I knew her before she was a virgin. - (on Doris Day) | |
| Rex Harrison | I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. | |
| Robert Morley | It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutiy essential. | |
| Roger Moore | I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. | |
| Sigourney Weaver (1949 - ) | I'm an actor. An actress is someone who wears feather boas. | |
| Tom Stoppard | We're actors - we're the opposite of people. - (from "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead") | |
| W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946) | Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband; show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. | |
| Wilson Mizner | Some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted. |
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