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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner1901–1963
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)In context
- Acting
An actor’s a guy, who if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.
Marlon Brando1924–2004The Observer (1956)
- Acting
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
- Acting
No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
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
- Acting
The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13.
Roger Ebert1942–2013
I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.
Alec Baldwinborn 1958
- Acting
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960)
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Acting
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
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
- Acting
We’re actors⁠—we’re the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63
- Acting
This is fascinating! I love this picture! So I know it’s going to be a bomb. It’s always a disaster when you love something.
JCJohn Cassavetes