People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
People often become actresses | Bette Davis
I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.
character actress | Bette Davis
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.
Acting | Bette Davis
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
making faces all your life | Bette Davis
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Acting should be bigger than life | Bette Davis
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It’s passing through you more than you’re creating it. You’re not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Juliette Binoche | acting is about forgetting yourself
I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Juliette Binoche | tragedy, charaters
As an actress we don’t beat one another. It’s whoever’s right for the part.
Juliette Binoche | competition
I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep quotes | essence of my acting
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep quotes | Finding oneself in acting
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep quotes | blind faith, acting
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I’m very comfortable with what I’m doing – working on projects I’m proud of.
