Inspirational Quotes : Actors
1

Pray to God and say the lines.

Bette Davis

2

If there wasn’t something called acting they would probably hospitalize people like me. The giddiness and the joy of life is the moving and grooving, the exploration.

Whoopi Goldberg

3

If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I’d sweep the floor. There isn’t anything that pays you as well as acting while you decide what the hell you’re (more…)

4

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 Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

5

There are two kinds of actors — one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing (more…)

6

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

7

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey

8

Every now and then, when you’re onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It’s a sound you can’t get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you’ve hit them where they live.

Shelley Winters

9

I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It’s my life.

Bette Davis

10

An actress must never lose her ego — without it she has no talent.

Norma Shearer

11

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Rodney Dangerfield