William Hazlitt Quotes

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."