David Mamet Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

• At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

  David Mamet

  School, Men, Law

• Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

  David Mamet

  Doubt, Acting, Encounters

• The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

  David Mamet

  Acting, Way, Study

• You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

  David Mamet

  Acting, Stories, Rely

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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