Top 17 Quotes on “Actors/Actresses” with Author name and Quote’s Image

 

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Actors-Actresses

Quotes on “Actors/Actresses

A walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet

Have patience with the jealousies and petulance of actors, for their hour is their eternity.

Richard Garnett (1835-1906) English author, bibliographer

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

Michael Wilding (1912-1979) British actor

And here come tired youths and maids That feign to love or sin In tones like rusty razor blades To tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author

A character actor is one who cannot act and therefore makes. an elaborate study of disguise and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet of Edmund Kean

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

Orson Wellies (1915-1985) American filmmaker

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great— and they know I know it.

Clark Gable (1901-1960) American film actor

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

Howard Hughes  (1905-1976) American businessman

He has turned almost alarmingly blond — he’s gone past platinum, he must be plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

Pauline Kael (b. 1919) American critic of Robert Redford

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Richard Burton (1925-1984) British film actor

She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day.

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) British photographer of Katharine Hepburn

Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.

Oliver Herford (1863-1935) American poet, illustrator

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

Ethel Barrymore (1897-1959) American actress

A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) American diplomat, writer of Greta Garbo

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal — falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) French film director

So much of our profession is taken up with pretending, that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in a fantasy.

Ronald Reagan (b. 1911) American president

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