“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.”
Jean Cocteau
“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic”
Winston Churchill
“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“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”
Samuel Johnson
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
Charlie Chaplin
“I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?”
Drew Barrymore
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Oscar Wilde