“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
Jack Lemon
“An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.”
Francois Truffaut
“Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.”
Ani Difranco
“An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.”
Alec Guinness
“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”
Sam Rayburn
“Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.”
Oscar Wilde
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.”
Bette Davis
