Miriam Shor Quotes

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

There's no business like show business.

I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.