top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Acting quotes
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Blythe Danner
"It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays."
Acting
"Actors are very generous."
Actor
"I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me."
Woman
"I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Dream
"I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There."
Time
"I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it."
Business
"I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world."
Hope
"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."
Work
"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours."
Movies
"I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job."
Job
bottom of page