Actors should be timeless and impersonal.


Anne Parillaud

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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Actors really should be tramps.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D. W. GRIFFITH
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its hum...
NAMSOON KANG
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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DENNIS KUCINICH
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
OSCAR WILDE
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
JOHN GIELGUD
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
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Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop
JACK NICHOLSON
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Ac...
TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
MILAN KUNDERA
You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it...
HELEN HAYES
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
BRIGITTE BARDOT
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n...
JULIA ROBERTS
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t...
ORSON WELLES
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing...
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Originally, I Was A Happy Drunk…
EWAN MCGREGOR
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Why am I here? You guys are so fantastic.
KATE REID
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.
ANNE F. BEILER
Originality is timeless, be original.
ROSE B MASHIGO
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
SHIRLEY BOOTH
Actors should never give interviews.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER
Just let the wardrobe do the acting
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I figured if I was going to jail, I didn't want to spend more than six months there... I got so brai...
ROBERT BLAKE
I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in...
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Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
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We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together,
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I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.
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I'm going to go out and do a little cowboyin'. You know what that is? Cowboying is getting in a moto...
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
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When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a je...
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With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their...
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Just Like Heaven,
REESE WITHERSPOON
This one just had a really nice spiritual message about how important it is to nurture yourself. I t...
REESE WITHERSPOON
The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it
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I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I...
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Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.
JOSEPHINE HULL
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RACHAEL LEIGH
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
MARILYN MONROE
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they ...
BETTE DAVIS
I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
TOM STOPPARD
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what som...
BOB HOPE
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
ROSALIND RUSSELL
I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused ...
DREW BARRYMORE
My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
ROBERT A. M. STERN
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulner...
JACK LEMON
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a do...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR
Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry...
GLENDA JACKSON
The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why...
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I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardles...
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The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over a...
ELAINE DUNDY
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
ELAINE DUNDY
It's just a day to celebrate them.
GLENDA JACKSON
You've got to sing like you don't need the money.
GLENDA JACKSON
If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem
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I don't see how that could corroborate that he left the gun,
ROBERT BLAKE
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely.

Anne laughed, sipp...
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The story is timeless and can be done in any era.
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People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
ANNE FRANK
All art requires courage.
ANNE TUCKER
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the...
ANNE BRONTE
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
ANNE FRANK
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my o...
ANNE FRANK
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning wit...
ANNE FRANK
I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le...
ANNE FRANK
Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
ANNE FRANK
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
ANNE FRANK
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cun...
ANNE FRANK
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then...
ANNE FRANK
I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o...
ANNE FRANK
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly th...
ANNE FRANK
The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
ANNE FRANK
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good ...
ANNE FRANK
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
ANNE FRANK
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound e...
ANNE FRANK
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can...
ANNE FRANK
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build ...
ANNE FRANK
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h...
ANNE FRANK
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of ...
ANNE FRANK
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these...
ANNE FRANK