“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do ...” — Katharine Hepburn Quote

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.