Famous quotes by Actors

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Most women are not as young as they are painted"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I feel cheated, never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"If there is no direct threat, why are we invading?"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"People are either born hosts or born guests"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"To mankind in general, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with"

Juliet Mills, Actor

"My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats"

Juliet Mills, Actor

"We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m"

Juliet Mills, Actor

"The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself"

Richard Burton, Actor

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow"

Richard Burton, Actor

"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning"

Richard Burton, Actor

"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice"

Richard Burton, Actor

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