Actors quotes

“Up there, those are the actors and the costumes and the scenery. They don't know the soul of the opera. In your dressing room, I could only teach you the words, the notes. But here... here I can teach you the meaning.”

Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Protestant Clergyman: Who plays Christ?
- Eddie Mannix: A kid we're all very excited about, Todd Hocheiser, a wonderful young actor we found in Akron, Ohio, after a nationwide talent hunt. But Hocheiser is seen only fleetingly and with extreme taste. Our story is told through the eyes of a Roman tribune, Autochlus Antonius, an ordinary man,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Allan Havey - Protestant Clergyman
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix

“Thank the Lord and pass the biscuits, I finally have an actor to dress.”
Michael Siberry - Larry

“Dear Diary, today I tried a tampon. No thanks Tom Hanks.”

Ike Barinholtz - James

“Actors can't retire. What would they do?”
Larry Hagman

“- Karen Flores: I think you could be an actor.
- Chili Palmer: Well, I could see myself in the parts that Robert De Niro plays. Or maybe even, an Al Pacino movie, you know, playing a real hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in those movies where three grown-up guys get left with a baby, and so they act like three grown-up assholes, acting all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rene Russo - Karen Flores
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

“Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. ”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

When I was a kid, I used to think there was a special place where all the movie stars lived. A kind of "Shangri La". And if you could just get inside there, you'd be happy. Forever.
Simon Pegg - Sidney Young

“The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying, and praying. And I just sat there. Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooney's face on the front page. Not mine.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
Katharine Hepburn

“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
Mary Tyler Moore

“If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors. ”
Sonny Chiba

“An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated. ”
Sonny Chiba

“I am over 35-years-old. I am physically unable to bear children. And I pay alimony to my ex-husband, who is a faggot. Yet I am willing to bet that all of you would fuck me over that desk right now if you knew you'd be having lunch with Harrison Ford as soon as you blew your wad.”
Joan Cusack - Fanny Nash

“I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?”
Robert Shaw

“You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. ”
Anne Fletcher

“- Ron Delaney: [trying to encourage Larry to leave gang life] Hey Larry, you could make it out too.
- Larry Sylvester: How? Maybe I go to Hollywood. Be Eddie Murphy. Hey Frog, think America is ready to love two niggers at the same time?”
Randy Brooks - Ron Delaney
Grand L. Bush - Larry Sylvester

“Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.”
Bette Davis

“- Tommy: I coulda been somebody, instead of just an ice cream truck driver, which is what I am, let's face it.
- Debbie: Who was that, Jerry Lewis?
- Tommy: Jerry Lewis? You thought that was Jerry Lewis?”

Steve Buscemi - Tommy
Chloë Sevigny - Debbie

“I guess actors don't like to direct each other.”
Peter Jacobson

“- Aggie Rockwell: You can't have a nympho do a porno, because then it wouldn't be acting, it would be real.
- Dwayne Hanson: That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.”
Suzy Amis - Aggie Rockwell
Kevin Spacey - Dwayne Hanson

“- Michael Burgess: I'm trying to get used to how different you look. You know, you're two different people!
- Faith Healy: Oh, well, if all I could be is two different people, I'd be out of business!”

Alan Alda - Michael Burgess
Michelle Pfeiffer - Faith Healy

“Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?”
Kirk Douglas

“I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. ”
Kirk Douglas

“- Terry Randall: The trouble with you is you're all trying to be comics. Don't you ever take anything seriously?
- Judith: After you've sat around for a year trying to get a job, you won't take anything seriously either.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Lucille Desiree Ball - Judith