If you want to know the truth about actresses, it's that we're hungry all the time. We really don't eat. We live on Muesli bars and yoghurt.
-- Julianne Moore

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor -- unassisted.
-- Wilson Mizner

An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
-- Fred Allen

I want you to put more life into your dying.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
-- Sir John Gielgud (quoted in The Ages of Gielgud, ed: Ronald Harwood, 1984)

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
-- James Cameron (on Sigourney Weaver's worry about Guns in Aliens - Movieline, July 1994)

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.
-- Robert Mitchum

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.
-- Robert Mitchum

The most important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
-- Glenda Jackson