A random selection of inpsirational, but mainly funny, quotations.

“What’s interesting about the process of acting is how often you don’t know what you’re doing.” Alan Rickman

“Writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.” Steve Martin

“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.” Mae West

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” George Burns

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.” William Hazlitt (v. v. interesting )

“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.” Bette Davis

“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.” Lionel Barrymore

“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” Edmund Keene (on his death bed)

“As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.” Ben Kingsley

“Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.” Paul Newman

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” George Burns

“What was peculiar about me was what made me successful. I’ve seen good actors go into analysis and really lose it.” Bette Davis

“The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.” Stella Adler

“Actors are one family over the entire world.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” Buster Keaton

Spoken by Madame Arkadina in the Quotes category with the tag(s) actors, lists.

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