#actor

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#full #future #idealised #in fact #notion

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. ↗

— Bette Davis

#any #business #dare #enemy #get

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. ↗

— Bette Davis

#ever #having #i #laugh #off

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#almost #analysis #decided #go #i

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. ↗

— Viola Davis

#behind #i #i can #job #just

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. ↗

— Viola Davis

#any #certain #certain way #get #going

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#applause #audience #film #film actor #get

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#enlightening #fascinating #good #good actor #interesting

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#actor #again #being #between #business

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#coming #coming home #factory #found #gloves