Joan Blondell Quotes

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.