“It will be a sad day when I begin thinking of all this as work. I enjoy every minute of it.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“Mama says to me, 'Being an actor is fine, but what are you going to do for a living?' I took my mother to the premiere of The Dirty Dozen and she said, 'It's disgraceful!' I asked her how she liked my role and she said, 'You were ridiculous!'”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“I don't play that far away from myself because then I think people would say I was acting.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“Dear today, I spend all of you pretending I'm okay when I'm not, pretending I'm happy when I'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“I’ve been mostly attracted to playing men who are in some kind of personal moral crisis, trying to better themselves and essentially be good people within the community.”— Kevin Spacey, interviewmagazine.com
“I’m not really in a place where my personality is so known that I can’t hide.”— Kevin Spacey, bombmagazine.org
“Dating a professional actress is tough. Especially if you're up for the same part.”— Garry Shandling, esquire.com
“I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality....So I knew that I had to create some characters.”— Jackie Gleason, youtube.com
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”— Rod Serling, goodreads.com
“Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting.”— Alicia Vikander, interviewmagazine.com
“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.”— Steve Jobs, youtube.com
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”— T.E. Lawrence, amazon.com
“I did one film that I'm proud of. That was 40 years ago. Since then I've stayed busy. I wouldn't say I've been achieving. It's kind of weird being remembered for one part for so many years.”— Sam Elliott, npr.org
“It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you’re told you can and can’t be. It feels incredible.”— Jodie Whittaker, doctorwho.tv
“To be asked to play the ultimate character, to get to play pretend in the truest form: this is why I wanted to be an actor in the first place. To be able to play someone who is literally reinvented on screen, with all the freedoms that brings: what an unbelievable opportunity. And added to that, to…”— Jodie Whittaker, doctorwho.tv
“I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie.”— Jennifer Lawrence, m.imdb.com
“It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking rather than to think your way into a new way of acting.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy.”— Chloe Sevigny, huffingtonpost.com