“If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.”
Joseph P. Kennedy
“If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.”
Thornton Wilder
“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits”
Dustin Hoffman
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”
Orson Welles
“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
“Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.”
Oscar Wilde
“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”
Sam Rayburn