Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Acting

• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Inspirational Life

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

• I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dancer, Wish, Wire

• Action has magic, grace and power in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grace, Magic, Acting

• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Encouragement, Character

• No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Acting, Conscious

• An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Actors, Lessons

• Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acting, Matter, Actors

• The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Eye, Acting

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