 | "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
- Bette Davis
, The Lonely Life, 1962. |
| "Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."
- John Wayne
, Advice on acting. |
| "Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
- Kate Reid
. |
| "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn
. |
| "I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
- Oscar Wilde
, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. |
| "I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."
- Roger Moore
. |
| "Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
- Sir Ralph Richardson
, Quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946. |
| "We're actors - we're the opposite of people."
- Tom Stoppard
, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967). |