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  • H. M. Warner said:

    Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  • 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.

  • Ellen Barkin said:

    Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  • For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus the brains of a Minerva the grace of Terpsichore the memory of a Macaulay the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  • Stella Adler said:

    The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

  • Jackie Chan said:

    American stuntmen are smart they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car they calculate everything: the speed the distance…. But in Hong Kong we dont know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If youve got the guts you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. I say Do it! Camera action jump! Boom! Ambulance! Hospital! Next stuntman!

  • Jack Lemmon said:

    When Im reading material if Im a little bit afraid of a part and Im willing to admit that to myself then Ill do it definitely. If Im worried about being able to do it to get it I absolutely just love it.

  • On the stage … masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

  • What do I wear in bed? Why Chanel No. 5 of course.

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