SELECTED QUOTES BY THE FAMOUS ACTORS (Compiled by Raju Jamil)
We’ll have FIVE best selected quotes of the famous
International actors/directors/playwrites/observers
on this thread on daily basis except Sundays.
For starters;
All people are half actors
(Dana Andrews, American Filmstar)
A good actor lasts, but THAT appeal does not.
(Brigitte Bardot, French Film Actress)
For an actress to be a success she must have
the face of VENUS, the brains of MINERVA,
the grace of TERSICHORE, the memory of MACAULAY,
the appearance of JUNO and the hide of a RHINOCEROS.
(Ethel Barrymore, American Actress)
Acting is the matter of calculated instincts.
(Ernest Borgnine, American Filmstar)
Acting is the expression of neorotic impulse.
(Marlon Brando, American Filmstar)
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin'
about him, ain't listening
& An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. (The Observer-1956)
The better the actor the more stupid he is. (Truman Capote, American writer)
A fan club is the group of people who tell
an actor he is not alone in the way he
feels about himself. (Jack Carson, "The Wit Of The Theatre" 1968)
A good ham is an actor who enjoys giving
pleasure to people. and The real actor---like any real artiste--has a
direct line to the collective hearts. (Bette Davis, American filmstar)
**Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet. ** **--------------- ** **Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. ** **--------------- ** **I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ** **--------------- ** **I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Actors and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ** **--------------- ** **I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ** **--------------- ** **I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising. ** **--------------- ** **In short I will part with anything for you but you. ** **--------------- ** **Life is too short for a long story. ** **--------------- ** **Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace. ** **--------------- ** **No entertainment is so cheap as acting, nor any pleasure so lasting. ** **--------------- ** **No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ** **--------------- **
***Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.