Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits

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

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening