Minnie Maddern Fiske quote: "As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on."

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Fin...
JOHN RITTER

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I...
FOREST WHITAKER

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I...
BILL VAUGHN

Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; out...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

There's no use casting doubt on (scientific) results with some little problems, as the intelligent-d...
HANS KUNG

The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t...
LYDIA DAVIS

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

We knew Mark could be funny. Good actors can do anything, and we knew how good he is as an actor. Bu...
LAURIE MACDONALD

As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic tru...
LARRY DRAKE

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter ...
JEFF BRIDGES

The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up ...
CONDOLA RASHAD

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. B...
BILL VAUGHAN

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. B...
FOREST WHITAKER

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying an...
ZOE WANAMAKER

As an actor, it's a constant question of whether I will ever get hired again ... (but) this idea is ...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL

He's been put on the concussion program again, but the first one was so severe I think the program m...
LINDY RUFF

It isn't a fit nickname. It is, in a way. He's an easy guy. He goes with the flow. But he's a very p...
THOMAS BJORN

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. S...
KATHRYN HAHN

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I&...
EDDIE MARSAN

I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an...
DONNIE YEN

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make m...
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT

There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. Bu...
ADAM DRIVER

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but...
MELISSA BENOIST

Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word th...
SARAH DESSEN

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE

There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day,...
MATT MCGORRY

To do what he did and be able to crash an aircraft going as fast as he was and not create casualties...
JOE CHRISTMAN

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at univer...
DAVID NICHOLLS

All I can say is that Ryan drank and drove and wants to prevent that from happening again. He wanted...
PATRICIA SCHULTZ

I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern po...
ROMAN PAYNE

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as ...
RANDY WAYNE

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is ...
HENRY GEE

It really started out as a by-product of our main work, but it works well and I think it may generat...
DR ANSGAR BERNARDI

He turned it again a little in practice (on Tuesday), but we're hoping he can play.
MIKE GODAN

I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the ...
KEN BUCK

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Eve...
JOE DEMPSIE

Of all the guys I teach, he's probably the greatest overachiever. Look at what he accomplished befor...
BUTCH HARMON

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
ELOISE MUMFORD

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON

A lot of guys, when certain things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster ...
ROY WILLIAMS

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti...
LEO TOLSTOY

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor...
NICOLAS CAGE

I think some of it might be mental lapses, I think some of it might be they tried to rush. Early on ...
DAN NOBBS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES

I can understand how he can take that (comment) to be what I didn't intend it to be so I can't fault...
CURT SCHILLING

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set ...
IDRIS ELBA

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it...
ELIF SHAFAK

One of the real problems as an actor is dealing with how you feel on any given night.
RICHARD MCCABE

I am sure he is at home feeling motivated by watching this, and wanting to step up again,
GRANT HACKETT

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline...
JOHN GREEN

In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just...
EVA BRAUN

I am happy being an actor. Donning the hat of a producer was a tough job and a different experience,...
NIVIN PAULY

I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to m...
STEPHEN AMELL

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
MARTIN PARR

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself....
RANDY HARRISON

I don't think there is anything else I am going to show him that he did not realize I could do, ... ...
EDDIE POPE

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving ...
JIM WEBB

I don?t think it?s fair to speculate. We?re going to rehab him like he?s going to play again. I have...
RICK BURKHOLDER

I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fi...
JAMES BALDWIN

I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He...
DENNIS STOCK

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method...
TOM FELTON

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
AMANDA BURTON

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank ca...
ARTHUR LOWE

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial. All I can say is that he is a chara...
LARRY GARRISON

No powdery residue. But definitely suspicious. Smell." He slides a makeup catalog from beneath a mic...
SARAH OCKLER

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ....
ROBERT WISE

It was a bad season last year but it wasn't Ramon's fault. He did his best as a leader ... He's an h...
EZRA HENDRICKSON

He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an act...
JULIAN FELLOWES

I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't ...
MICHAEL FARADAY

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but ...
ALISON GOODMAN

I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. ...
BRENDA JOYCE

Right now I don't have an answer for that. I'm sure of a few things. I'm sure that he was a born aga...
DEBORAH FORBIS

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can...
BEN KINGSLEY

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mi...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

He had to think on his feet and he did a great job, ... I am as happy as you can be losing.
CRAIG WILLIAMS

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS

Tea has nothing to do with being hungry," said Nimrod. "For Englishmen, it is like a canonical hour....
P.B. KERR

I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that tha...
DANIEL WU

I am sure he is at home feeling motivated by watching this and wanting to step up again, ... I am lo...
GRANT HACKETT

Can he sell it again? I don't know. If anybody can, he can.
BARBARA O'CONNOR

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...
DOROTHY PARKER

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
KAT DENNINGS

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day ...
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE

My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon ...
LORETTA SWIT

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fa...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestr...
RICHARD RODGERS

He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He d...
JEAN BELIVEAU

[Committee chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) set the easygoing tone early on.] I am sure Senator Cohe...
STROM THURMOND

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