“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”
“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”
“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
“Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.”
“Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.”
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”
“I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.”
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
“I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.”
“Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.”
“To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.”
“An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.”
“We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.”
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”
“The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.”
“An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.”
“Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.”
“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.”
“An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.”
“I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.”
“You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.”
“In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.”
“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
“I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.”