A Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
English - Director
August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

James Stewart

Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!'

Divine

Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.

Catherine Crier

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

Rick Riordan

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Xenophanes

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Al Ries

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

Langdon Winner

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

Xenophanes

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Henry David Thoreau

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded.

George Carlin

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

Charles Kingsley

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

Rob Lowe

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this.