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I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen. – Orson Welles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. – Orson Welles	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. – W. C. Fields	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It was a pleasure working with Aishwarya in The Last Legion (2007), and her fans are in for a big surprise. She is an excellent and outstanding actor. She is a shining example of beauty from India, and I'm sure we will be seeing her in more Hollywood movies real soon. – Ben Kingsley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. – Ben Kingsley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.* – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. – Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity. – Orlando Bloom	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. – James Dean	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. – Marlon Brando	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.' – Alfred Hitchcock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. – Edwin Booth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening. – Marlon Brando	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier – Carol Burnett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. – Winston Churchill	added by acronimous 14 years ago
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. – Bette Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky. – Harrison Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. – Arsenio Hall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself. – Jeanne Moreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. – Miranda Richardson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. – Donald Sinden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. – Roger Moore	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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