“Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.” Hattie McDaniel

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation." Bette Davis

"I didn't know there were things you couldn't do, so anything I could think up in my dreams I attempted to photograph." Orson Welles

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."  Mary Pickford

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” Akira Kurosawa

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else."

Julie Andrews

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself." Laurence Olivier

"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. I want to be a human being who can affect others" Marlon Brando

"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." - Jack Lemmon

"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.” Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t want to make money I just want to be wonderful. “ Marilyn Monroe

"I don't like acting, I have never liked acting, and I have never wanted to be an actress, but there's no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." Elsa Lanchester

“What’s the big idea, am I dumb or somethin?” Lina Lamont, Singing in the Rain (1952)

“I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.”- The King of Hollywood, Clark Gable

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out” - Alfred Hitchcock