Acting Quotes

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. Sir Ralph Richardson Quotes We're actors - we're the opposite of people. Tom Stoppard Quotes Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. John Wayne Quotes Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Kate Reid Quotes 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 Quotes The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde Quotes I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. Roger Moore Quotes 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 Quotes Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns Quotes A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. Bela Lugosi Quotes Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. Bela Lugosi Quotes Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. Bela Lugosi Quotes Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. Bela Lugosi Quotes Death, the final, triumphant lover. Bela Lugosi Quotes Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. Bela Lugosi Quotes I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. Bela Lugosi Quotes I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. Bela Lugosi Quotes I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. Bela Lugosi Quotes I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. Bela Lugosi Quotes I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. Bela Lugosi Quotes I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. Bela Lugosi Quotes I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? Bela Lugosi Quotes I never play without my cape. Bela Lugosi Quotes I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. Bela Lugosi Quotes I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. Bela Lugosi Quotes I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. Bela Lugosi Quotes I'll take any story if it's good. Bela Lugosi Quotes I've been using narcotics for 20 years. Bela Lugosi Quotes If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. Bela Lugosi Quotes If you are not serious, people will sense it. Bela Lugosi Quotes In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision. Bela Lugosi Quotes In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy. Bela Lugosi Quotes In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. Bela Lugosi Quotes In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. Bela Lugosi Quotes It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. Bela Lugosi Quotes It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. Bela Lugosi Quotes It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. Bela Lugosi Quotes It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. Bela Lugosi Quotes It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. Bela Lugosi Quotes Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. Bela Lugosi Quotes My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me. Bela Lugosi Quotes My close-up was magnificent! Bela Lugosi Quotes Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano De Bergerac. Bela Lugosi Quotes People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. Bela Lugosi Quotes The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. Bela Lugosi Quotes The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Bela Lugosi Quotes The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. Bela Lugosi Quotes The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. Bela Lugosi Quotes The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking. Bela Lugosi Quotes The stage is near and dear to me. Bela Lugosi Quotes The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. Bela Lugosi Quotes There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. Bela Lugosi Quotes To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. Bela Lugosi Quotes To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. Bela Lugosi Quotes When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. Bela Lugosi Quotes Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. Bela Lugosi Quotes Women have a predestination to suffering. Bela Lugosi Quotes You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Bela Lugosi Quotes