Cedric Hardwicke famous quotes

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#Talking #Acting #Actors

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#Thinking #Practice #Might

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#Sorry #Believe #Swimming

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#America #Wife #Mistress

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#America #Wife #Mistress

Actors and burglars work better at night.
-- Cedric Hardwicke

#Night #Actors #Burglars

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.