“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
Arthur Helps
“Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life”
Alec Guinness
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Seneca
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.”
Bette Davis
“I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.”
Anthony Burgess
