Quotes about Acting
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"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingrid Bergman
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words have become superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
- Orson Welles
"We live in a snake pit here...I hate it, but I just don't allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go."
- Orson Welles
"There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint."
- Orson Welles
"For me [Hollywood] was like a terrible dream I have...I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I can't find my room. People pass me as if they cannot see or hear me."
- Louise Brooks
"Since I never learned to act, I never had any trouble playing myself."
- Louise Brooks
"Years ago I learned that truth is not the answer when it comes to appraising anybody's creative work; yet when I have praised what I thought bad, I have lived to eat my words. [Planet of the Apes] is so silly and so useless...that I think I will wait for it to be - I hope - canceled, and then I can write a sympathetic burial letter."
- Louise Brooks
"Old age ain't no place for sissies."
- Bette Davis
"Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling."
- Zooey Deschanel
"I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape."
- Scarlett Johansson
"I know I am kind and I have fun and if I sat there and worried about what everybody else thought of me my brain would be very crowded."
- Rose McGowan
"I feel people have tried to stamp out what is special about me."
- Rose McGowan
"I am large with solitude, heavy in my shadows.
I am not the whisper heard in the back of the theatre,
I am the cinema, I am every shadow,
every fold in the lightning, I am breath beyond the grave, twists of a sigh."
- from S. Kartsonis
"The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert."
- Ethel Barrymore
"Now you are yourself, but not yourself; an ideal state for a meeting between lovers."
- from The Hour of the Wolf
"I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful."
- Kim Novak
"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral urgings and promptings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total."
- Charlie Chaplin
"Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image."
- Roland Barthes
"The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else."
- Ellen Page
"The only reason I went to Hollywood was to fuck that divine Gary Cooper."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingrid Bergman
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words have become superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
- Orson Welles
"We live in a snake pit here...I hate it, but I just don't allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go."
- Orson Welles
"There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint."
- Orson Welles
"For me [Hollywood] was like a terrible dream I have...I am lost in the corridors of a big hotel and I can't find my room. People pass me as if they cannot see or hear me."
- Louise Brooks
"Since I never learned to act, I never had any trouble playing myself."
- Louise Brooks
"Years ago I learned that truth is not the answer when it comes to appraising anybody's creative work; yet when I have praised what I thought bad, I have lived to eat my words. [Planet of the Apes] is so silly and so useless...that I think I will wait for it to be - I hope - canceled, and then I can write a sympathetic burial letter."
- Louise Brooks
"Old age ain't no place for sissies."
- Bette Davis
"Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling."
- Zooey Deschanel
"I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape."
- Scarlett Johansson
"I know I am kind and I have fun and if I sat there and worried about what everybody else thought of me my brain would be very crowded."
- Rose McGowan
"I feel people have tried to stamp out what is special about me."
- Rose McGowan
"I am large with solitude, heavy in my shadows.
I am not the whisper heard in the back of the theatre,
I am the cinema, I am every shadow,
every fold in the lightning, I am breath beyond the grave, twists of a sigh."
- from S. Kartsonis
"The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert."
- Ethel Barrymore
"Now you are yourself, but not yourself; an ideal state for a meeting between lovers."
- from The Hour of the Wolf
"I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful."
- Kim Novak
"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral urgings and promptings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total."
- Charlie Chaplin
"Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image."
- Roland Barthes
"The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else."
- Ellen Page
"The only reason I went to Hollywood was to fuck that divine Gary Cooper."
- Tallulah Bankhead