(1132 quotes found)
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
Susan Sontag
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”
William Shakespeare
“I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.”
Anthony Burgess
“Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself”
Katharine Hepburn
“I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.”
Jon Stewart
“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
Ethel Barrymore
“In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.”
Konstantin Stanislavsky
“My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.”
Estelle Winwood
“Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.”
Thornton Wilder
“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”
Sam Rayburn
