Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "A" » Actors and acting
«An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Best A, call on, Heaven and Hell, innocents, mesmerize, mesmerized
«Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.»
Author: Anna Pavlova
(Dancer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
although, fruits, tasted, theatrical, theatricals
«...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?»
Author: Cary Grant
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, articulate, articulated, articulating, clever, costumes, costuming, dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, jostle, jostled, jostling, land, smiling, sorts, suddenly, wearing
«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.»
Author: Francois Truffaut
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, animal, fox, lying, moving, reminds
«Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity»
«An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow»
Author: Lawrence Barrett
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, carves, Sculptor, sculptors, snow
«An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening»
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
expectancy, fleeting, gas, gas tank, lighted, look into, match, popularity, tank, tanked, tanks, tink
«Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
act as, General will, maxim, natural action, natural law
«An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Isaac, Isaac Stern, jumped, sensitive, stern, violin
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
