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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
- Acting
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain’t⁠—take two!
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
- Acting
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don’t agree with, or maybe I just haven’t thought of it or whatever, I’d be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it’s going to become predictably my work, and that’s not fun.
Jack Nicholsonborn 1937
- Acting
I’m not sure how much movies should entertain. I’ve always been more interested in movies that scar.
David Fincherborn 1962
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
Roger Moore1927–2017
- Acting
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles1915–1985
A film is⁠—or should be⁠—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999Kagan, Norman (1989), The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, New York: Continuum Books.
When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
- Acting
- Money
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
- Education
Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI
- Acting
- Character
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.
Marlon Brando1924–2004New York Times (July 2, 2004)
- Acting
In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Paris Review interview (2010)
- Love
His [David Garrick’s] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
- Acting
People go to the movies instead of moving!
Tennessee Williams1911–1983The Glass Menagerie (1944), Tom, Scene Six
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson1902–1983As quoted in the New York Herald Tribune (19 May 1946)
- Acting