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So where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguileraborn 1980
I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.
Alec Baldwinborn 1958
- Acting
I get offered so many bad movies. And they’re all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
David Bowie1947–20161983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60
- Comedy
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
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
- Television
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
- Acting
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- 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
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
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
- Acting
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
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can’t help it, but, it is troubling.
Marlon Brando1924–2004Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994) p. 143
- Acting
We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.
Jerry Bruckheimerborn 1943
The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
George Burns1896–1996
- Acting