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The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
George Burns1896–1996
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson1902–1983Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)In context
An actor’s a guy, who if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.
Marlon Brando1924–2004The Observer (1956)
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse — it’s a bum’s life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Marlon Brando1924–2004The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985), Ch.13
If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful it’s worse than having a skin disease.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.
Alec Baldwinborn 1958
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
I’ll always perform, because show business is in my blood. Or maybe it’s in my feet. Wherever it is, I don’t think I’ll ever stop.
Robin Williams1951–2014Playboy, October 1982
We’re actors⁠—we’re the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937