Actor Quotes

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

— You're an actress, right?
— All women are actresses, dear. I'm just clever enough to get paid for it.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

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David Niven

Roles

Everyone in this world like this – blind, impulsive, selfish, unaware of what they want or should do. Everyone’s just a pathetic actor, a dumb puppet!

Rachel Green: — So, like, you guys all have jobs?
Monica Geller: — Yeah, we all have jobs. See, that's how we buy stuff.
Joey Tribbiani: — Yeah, I'm an actor.
Rachel Green: — Wow. Would I have seen you in anything?
Joey Tribbiani: — Oh, I doubt it. Mostly regional work.
Monica Geller: — Unless you happened to catch the Wee One's production of Pinocchio.
Chandler Bing: — "Look, Geppeto. I'm a real live boy."
Joey Tribbiani: — I will not take this abuse.
Chandler Bing: — You're right. I'm sorry. Once I was a wooden boy, A little wooden boy...

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

It's the actor's job to avoid impediments to their performance.

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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Trudi Frazer

Acting

Informative Quotes

— That was two years ago, and that guy's an idiot!
— They can't all be idiots. You argue with everybody! You've got one of the worst reputations in this town. Nobody will hire you.
— Are you saying that nobody in New York will work with me?
— Nobody in Hollywood will either. I can't even get you a commercial. You played a tomato, and they went over schedule because you wouldn't sit.
— Yes, it wasn't logical.
— You were a tomato! A tomato doesn't have logic. It can't move!
— So if he can't move, how's he going to sit down? I was a stand-up tomato. A juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato! Nobody does vegetables like me! I did vegetables off-Broadway! I did the best tomato, the best cucumber! I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass!

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Tootsie

Dorothy Michaels / Michael Dorsey

An actress has a moral duty to be curious, even a woman, otherwise, succumbs.

– Is it true that you lived in Italy among artists and vagrants?
– My mother was Italian. And a pianist... Grandfather disapproved of her.

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Little Women

Josephine "Joe" March

Theodore "Laurie" Lawrence

Italy

Mother

Life

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for Robert De Niro there's Al Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

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