• "Acting is frivolous, but frivolity is a big part of our society; so we might as well relax and enjoy it."
  • Jane Fonda

• "I do a job. I get paid. I go home."
  • Maureen Stapleton

• "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
  • Bette Davis

• "[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
  • Elaine Dundy

• "We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses."
  • Laurence Olivier

• "Actors are crap."
  • John Ford

• "All actors are cattle. Actually, all actors are not cattle, but should be treated as such."
  • Alfred Hitchcock

• "You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational -- and probably sexual!"
  • George Herman

• "Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
  • Kate Reid