Here are some of my favorite acting/non-acting related quotes. Mostly, I find them inspiring when I’m face-down in the mud, trying to still sound elegant and graceful. Oi!

“For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros” — Ethel Barrymore

“Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.” – John Gielgud

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal – falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.” — Francois Truffaut

“Luck favors the prepared mind. ” — Louis Pasteur and my old Bio advisor

“Acting is happy agony.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.” — Rodney Dangerfield

“An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.” – Michael Chekhov

“To be an actor you have to be a child.” – Paul Newman

“One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.” – Liv Ullmann

“True power is an individual’s ability to move from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Hell, I ain’t paid to make good lines sound good. I’m paid to make bad lines sound good.” –Walter Huston