Nobody “becomes” a character. You can’t act unless you are who you are.
Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful it’s worse than having a skin disease.
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can’t help it, but, it is troubling.
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
I thank you for not snoring.
I don’t think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.
I only mean forty per cent of what I say.
I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
The close-up says everything, it’s then that an actor’s learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn’t ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you’re a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.
I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews...