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Actors Quotes

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Simone Elkeles
“We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.”
Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

Tom Stoppard
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Jim Carrey
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
Jim Carrey

Rod Serling
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Serling

Tom Stoppard
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Justin Bieber
“Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
One time.
When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock)
Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop)
Even love is a struggle and it's all we got.
So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top.
'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours...”
Justin Bieber

Erik Pevernagie
“Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Justin Bieber
“My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (love love) 'Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I'm never leaving, 'cause your my angel sent from above. (bove bove) Me and you can do no wrong. My money is yours give you a lil more 'cause I love ya, love ya. With me girl is where you belong...

-Love Me”
Justin Bieber

E.A. Bucchianeri
“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

Lauren Bacall
“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.”
Lauren Bacall

Ewan McGregor
“I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.”
Ewan McGregor

Joan Crawford
“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”
Joan Crawford

Marlon Brando
“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”
Marlon Brando

Tom Stoppard
“There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!”
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Ewan McGregor
“I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.”
Ewan McGregor

“The most talented people are always the nicest.”
James Caan

Stephen King
“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”
Stephen King, The Waste Lands

Charlie Chaplin
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
Charlie Chaplin

Ewan McGregor
“I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.”
Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor
“He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].”
Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor
“I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”
Ewan McGregor

François de la Rochefoucauld
“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”
François de La Rochefoucauld

Stella Adler
“Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.”
Stella Adler, The Art of Acting

Salman Rushdie
“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Ljupka Cvetanova
“Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.”
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Constantin Stanislavski
“It is not enough to discover the secret of a play, its thought and feelings—the actor must be able to convert them into living terms.”
Konstantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

“Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'
Hugh: 'Pained?”
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Vincent H. O'Neil
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”
Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe

Craig Ferguson
“I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.”
Craig Ferguson

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