#actor

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage. ↗

— Bobby Darin

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The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#best #concerned #demands #factor #going

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

— Robertson Davies

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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

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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

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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#child #child actors #could #decided #ever

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#basically #i #know #last #living

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#being #books #distilled #else #me

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

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