Quotes from American Actors. Aphorisms about the actress

04.03.2020

: Actors are divided into performers and those who can give birth to something. The latter - only ten percent.

Leonid Gaidai:
Half of an actor's success is due to chance, half to looks, and the rest to talent.
Stanislav Sadalsky:
I was and always will be an artist. And as Chekhov said: "Artists are strange people, and are they people at all?"
Stanislav Sadalsky:
There are all sorts of artists, you just need to be able to make virtues out of your shortcomings.
Gerard Depardieu :
My work is connected with the need to love life in all its manifestations.
Gerard Depardieu :
The relationship between actor and director is like a love story between a man and a woman. Well, sometimes I have to be a woman.
Marlon Brando:
This profession is even older than prostitution! The apes were already playing!
Marlon Brando:
The best actors are directors on set.
Marlon Brando:
Acting is the least mysterious of all professions. Whenever we want to get something from someone, whenever we want to hide something or pretend something, we are acting. Most people do this from morning to evening.
Marlon Brando:
If I was offered the same money for sweeping the floor in the studio as for playing the role, I would sweep the floor.
Marlon Brando:
To comprehend the full meaning of life is the duty of the artist, to explain is his problem, and to express is his mission.
Marlon Brando:
A movie star is a man sitting on a sugar throne in the pouring rain.
Marlon Brando:
If a film actor is unable to improvise, then he got the role under the patronage of the director's wife.
Marlon Brando:
An actor is a person who does not listen until they are talking about him.
Alexander Pankratov-Cherny:
Behind the lightness of the visual image is the titanic work of the actor.
Nicole Kidman :
The essence of the actress is in constant variability, suppleness, the ability to transform. Therefore, in my roles, I try to be different every time, not get used to a stable role and play in contrasts.
Vivien Leigh:
Fantasy gives the actor an indescribable feeling of flight.
Nikolai Dobrynin:
Acting is a disease. Since you chose her, you need to get sick for real, not pretend.
K.S. Stanislavsky:
He thought he was a complete actor, but it turned out he was a complete actor.
K.S. Stanislavsky:
There is only one reason for the absence of an actor for a performance - death.
K.S. Stanislavsky:
There are no small roles - there are small actors.

Ivan Urgant is a popular Russian TV presenter, one of the best showmen in Russia, a talented actor. Born and raised in a family of actors, he inherited a passion for art from his parents and grandmother. He has a sparkling sense of humor and is in demand on radio and television. He is married and has a daughter, Nina, named after her grandmother, an actress.

Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin is a native of the Smolensk region. Talented actor, beloved by all clown. He starred in Soviet comedies, which became cult, as well as military films. Wrote the book “Almost Seriously. He died and was buried in 1997 in Moscow.

Famous actor and TV presenter, Ph.D. in painting. In 2001, the host of the show "The Last Hero". A talented screenwriter and director of many films. Tragically died in the Karmadon Gorge during the filming of the film "The Messenger". The glacier that covered his film crew will melt for 12 years.

Famous Soviet and Russian actor, circus performer. Honored Artist of Russia. The son of circus illusionist Harutyun Hakobyan, he is an illusionist. In films, he initially played magicians, then moved on to character roles. Hakobyan's quotes show all the mystery and magic of his nature.

Italian actor, pop singer, composer, director, public figure and TV presenter. In Italy, he received the nickname "Molleggiato" (Italian. On springs) - for his manner of moving on stage. Quotes by Adriano Celentano characterize him as a real hot Italian man.

Popular Canadian film actor, screenwriter. He is one of the highest paid comedians in the US. He is the owner of two Golden Globes and 11 MTV Movie Awards. Jim Carrey quotes show his nature in everyday life.

Popular American film and theater actor, director of Italian origin. He is best known for his gangster roles in films such as Scarface and Scent of a Woman. The last film brought him an Oscar for Best Actor. Al Pacino quotes show him from the side of everyday life.


Popular American and Hong Kong film actor, promoter of martial arts. In total, he starred in 36 films. It is noteworthy that about 30 films were made about his life and work. A true martial arts legend. Bruce Lee's quotes call to be brave and bold, they contain many philosophical teachings.

Making money in the acting industry may not be the most noble occupation, but quite profitable. In addition, this does not always require acting skills honed over the years.

Movie scripts and acting on the set should always be brighter and more interesting than life. Only then will the viewer accept the picture and believe the actors.

The moment the system called "confidence" is created, future generations will be able to work with great desire, as it was back in the days of Savva Morozov and also the Demidovs.

As soon as passengers get into the cabin, they immediately become such believers.

In real life, the actor will gladly help a woman, but on stage he will not have such an idea.

When a talented actor performs on stage, the audience in the hall sits with bated breath. This is real acting.

An unscrupulous person must have fear. A coward must have a conscience. But if both are missing, then we have what we have.

Actors do not go on a well-deserved rest, they simply stop getting roles and offers to act in films.

The performance of a loud-voiced actor must be perfect.

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Acting art is unacceptable.

Actors are like children, they just want to play.

The actor plays, but teaches seriously.

Actors play the better, the worse the play.

Men cannot stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

The actor is the critic of the drama. A music critic is a singer, or a violinist, or a flutist.

Children become very funny when they get to the foundational things. I remember my daughter sat down in front of me and said: Dad, I need to ask you questions. And she's four, you know. I have three. First: Is God afraid of dogs? “I had to think. No, I say. - Not afraid. And she: Okay. Did he catch dinosaurs? “I think I did. And then she says: Does he have a maid? But I don't know how to answer this question.

An actor is a person who does not listen until they are talking about him.

The whole world is an ACT. And the people in it are actors.

Real loneliness is a society of people who do not understand you.

All people are actors, with the possible exception of some actors.

I love what I do, but I'm tired of fighting someone else's stupidity, unprofessionalism.

The actor is a werewolf who adores numerous witnesses.

Acting is still in its infancy, when will it grow into our everyday acting?

Law of Actor Skill: The greater the dynamic range of an actor's skill, the wider his audience. Leonid S.

Need to live. Just live. Do not catch up and do not run away, do not envy and do not fuss.

Lord, send me good actors, and send me them cheaply!

Take the most important thing for yourself, apply it and get rid of the rest.

In Rus', it was fools and jesters who often said what smart people were afraid to even think about.

Real men have brains stronger than their penises. Wealth and sexuality alone cannot bring joy.

All my life I have swum in the toilet with a butterfly stroke”

There is no competition within me. I wouldn't say I'm loyal to anyone or anything. I am true to myself.

Actor - public trainer.

Today live today Monday. I took it in the morning, I sold it in the evening - and goodbye.

We ourselves became the guys we wanted to marry in our youth.

Acting is a game in which you are not you all the time, but someone else.

Be like children, but do not create in the same place where children make kaku.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. This is not an activity for an adult.

The artist is a cemetery of unplayed images.

In an open field, any actor is better than a warrior.

Untalented actors are those who never fail.

If you fall behind in art, you won't catch up. You just get off the circle. Not a single athlete has managed to become a champion in more than a dozen years.

The heroic epoch of our life requires another actor.

Even the role of Othello is performed more truthfully when there is a personal interest.

In the process of looking for an image, many actors commit outrages.

Var lei!, - for some reason Natalya ordered.

Even a good actor cannot play one role all his life.

All an actor needs is to learn the role and not bump into the furniture.

Acting is like roller skating: if you know how to do it, it doesn’t electrify or excite you at all.

Wishes are sure to come true, if not, then you have not yet learned how to make them.

Acting should be larger than life. The script must be larger than life. Everything must be larger than life.

Gambling of the actor is pursued not by law, but by fans.

Sexual intimacy can only be compared to music or prayer.

The actors and the audience must not meet. After the curtain falls, the actor must disappear as if by magic.

If you are smart, then you will be beautiful. There are no ugly ones. Someone is beautiful like a rose, someone like a cactus.

Even Hitler moved the meeting to another room when Oleg Yankovsky dozed off. (Not mine, I accidentally heard it)

Actors resemble children who have stopped in their development.

Don't be afraid of your enemies, be afraid of your friends. Friends betray, not enemies!

Being alone with your thoughts is a very dangerous activity... but very rewarding!

The game (acting) is one version of the unreal after another.

An artist is not a vocation, it is a state of mind, plus the capabilities of the body.

It's too easy to blame other people and circumstances in the past for your own self-hatred.

You can edit a film, you can cut something in the transmission, with modern technology everything is possible. The only thing that is impossible is to deceive the audience in the theater.

When I see someone who just follows his dreams and succeeds, does only what he wants to do and does not answer to anyone for it, of course, without harming anyone, I think that is wonderful.

An actress in life should be invisible.

Love is like climbing an ice-covered mountain in the dark. One wrong step and you're dead!

The music endows the biggest undead with acting abilities.

Actors are the same puppets, only alive and more functional.

An actor is something less than a man; an actress is something more than a woman.

The actor is in principle unable to assess the impact of another actor's performance on the viewer: he is instinctively always on the THAT side of the curtain line, and can only judge his performance as "in itself".

Women can fake orgasm. But men imitate relationships.

In this life, it doesn't matter how you fall. It matters how you get up.

Great is the artist who makes the audience forget about the details.

In whose personal life millions do not climb, that as an actor has not yet taken place.

A great actor with a bad face will make a wonderful comedy.

The actor plays the image of a man - the sitter depicts his likeness.

In the creative nature of the actor, in the whole nature of his creative process, there is nothing that would not be characteristic to one degree or another of the nature of every person in general.

An actor is not a profession, but a diagnosis.

The actor is like a pianist, where feelings play the role of keys.

Each person is an actor and creates a repertoire for himself.

A true actor, like any true artist, has a direct line of communication with the collective heart.

A family should have either two artists, or none.

Actors are mirrors of life, and differ from them in that each reflects it in their own way. Leonid S. Sukhorukov

An actor, first of all, must be cultured and understand, be able to reach out to the geniuses of literature.

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The less you know about an actor, the easier it is for you to believe the character he plays, that's one of the formulas for success.

Christian Bale

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A true artist is always an artist, even on stage.

Mikhail Genin

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The relationship between actor and director is like a love story between a man and a woman. Well, sometimes I have to be a woman.

Gerard Depardieu

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Acting is the art of giving away secrets.


Ellen Barkin

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Playing is like painting on waterproof wallpaper in a bathroom. After ten minutes, you erase the drawing, and nothing remains of it.


Shelley Winters

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Like all actors, I want to cheat death and be remembered.

Dennis Hopper

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An actor is a sculptor who sculpts in the snow.


Edwin Booth

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An actor is not a profession, but a diagnosis.

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You don't have to be moved to be touched.

Denis Diderot

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Extreme sensitivity creates mediocre actors; average sensitivity produces most bad actors, and only its absence produces great actors.

Denis Diderot

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Acting is like roller skating: if you know how to do it, it doesn’t electrify or excite you at all.

George Sanders

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Do not confuse: actors die from lack of praise, real people die from dislike.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The actor's body is a well in which life impressions are accumulated and retrieved when needed.

Simone Signoret

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Great is the artist who makes the audience forget about the details.


Sarah Bernard

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The place where the curtain goes up should be a fourth wall, transparent to the audience, but not to the actors.

Jean Julien

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Whatever happens, act like it was meant to be.


"The First Principle of Acting"

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The audience, if you just let it, will play half the role for you.


Katharine Hepburn

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Long arms are needed for the stage; Better too long than too short. An artist with short arms will never have graceful gestures.


Sarah Bernard

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The actor must make the audience forget the existence of the author, the existence of the director, and even the existence of the actor.

Paul Scofield

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Actors play the better, the worse the play.

Albrecht Galler

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George Bernard Shaw

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Acting is, first of all, the ability to keep a full house from coughing.

Ralph Richardson

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Pretense is in the blood of people: the essence of a person is most fully manifested when he portrays another.

William Hazlit

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The business of an actor is not to dress up, but to be completely naked. The whole point of memorizing the text is that. to forget it and pronounce it as if the words just came into your head.


Glenda Jackson

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It doesn't matter if you really cry. It matters if the public believes in your tears.


Ingrid Bergman

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I misunderstood the drama. I thought drama is when the characters cry, but in reality it's when the audience cries.

Frank Capra

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When I play drunk, I have to be sober, otherwise I don't know how to play.


Richard Burton

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The role never requires undressing, but this does not stop me: the box office requires.

Helen Mirren

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It doesn't bother me that I'm fat. They don't cut my salary for this.


Marlon Brando

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Actors go to hide themselves or to show themselves.


Ralph Richardson

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There are no small roles - there are small actors.


Konstantin Stanislavsky

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Watching the actors play Hamlet, you understand why Ophelia drowned herself.

For an actor, success is just delayed failure.


Graham Green

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We are artists, our place is in the buffet.


Alexander Ostrovsky. "Guilty Without Guilt"

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Great is the actor who makes the viewer forget about the buffet.


Arkady Davidovich

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Every actor has a natural antipathy to every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.


Louise Brooks

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The motive of any artist: "Well, look at me, mom!"

Lenny Bruce

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We don't see the best and worst actors on the stage.

Romain Rolland

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When an actor does not understand who he is playing, he willy-nilly plays himself.

Vasily Klyuchevsky

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On the faces of the actors you can read all the roles they have not played.

Mechislav Shargan

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The actress is a woman in a square, the actor is a man from whom the root is extracted.


Karl Kraus

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Politicians and actors never leave on time.


Frank Hubbard

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His name did not leave the poster, where he invariably appeared among "and others."

Emil Krotky

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The stage is the fatherland of the actor, and you need to renew your passport all the time so as not to lose citizenship.

Charlton Heston

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Work in the theater has a lot to do with unemployment.

Arthur Gingold

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Unoccupied actors are like ghosts looking for a body they can inhabit.

Gale Godwin

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He wants to become an actor, and he has all the data for this, including a complete lack of money and a sense of responsibility.

Hedda Hopper

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I get letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: "God will help!"

Faina Ranevskaya

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I lived with many theaters, but never enjoyed it.

Faina Ranevskaya

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An actor is something less than a man; an actress is something more than a woman.

Richard Burton

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If an actor marries an actress, squabbles begin over the mirror.

Burt Reynolds

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Talented actresses should be forgiven for their whims, for poor, talentless ladies are no less capricious.

Jules Renard

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She is subject to the whole gamut of feelings from A to B.

Dorothy Parker on Katharine Hepburn

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Only those who know the role by heart can improvise.

Judy Foster

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Narcissism is a very useful quality in life, and for an actor it is absolutely necessary.

Robert Morley

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I am not as good as they say about me now, and not as bad as they will say about me.

Gustav Holoubek

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A good actor does not interfere with even the most brilliant director's plan.

Anthony Slonimsky

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The best actors, of course, at Disney. He simply erases a bad actor.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Lord, send me good actors, and send me them cheaply!

Lillian Baileys, English theatrical figure

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Amateur performance: a chance for people without talent to prove it to everyone.



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