I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
- Ingrid Bergman


Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
- Ingrid Bergman


It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
- Ingrid Bergman


If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
- Ingrid Bergman


Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
- Ingrid Bergman


Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well, it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.
- Ingrid Bergman


Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
- Fanny Brice


I auditioned forever. At first they said I was too small and too young.
- Miley Cirus


[Playing Hannah] is a total girl thing. It's like dressing up every day.
- Miley Cirus


I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
- Kurt Cobain


As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I`m going to be able to do it forever.'
- Tom Cruise


Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
- Tom Cruise


I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
- Tom Cruise


The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
- Tom Cruise


What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
- Tom Cruise


The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Ben Franklin


I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.
- Martina McBride


Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.
- Jenny McCarthy


I don't think I ever said, 'I want to be an actress.' But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.
- Jenny McCarthy


How can a president not be an actor?
- Ronald Reagan