Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Leslie Howard.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Leslie Howard Steiner was an English actor, director and producer. He also wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
I can't think of anything more exciting than trying to be an actor.
Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.
What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.