So you think you can act?

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katherine Hepburn
 
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
 
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson

Actors are the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard

I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine
 
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Michael Wilding

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
George Burns

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman
 
Working with [Sophia Loren] is like being bombarded by watermelons.
Alan Ladd