Acting Quotes - Page 4

• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Actresses

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• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

  Christine Baranski

  Errors, Wire, Slim

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

  Stella Adler

  Theatre, Talent, Enough

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• To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

  James Dean

  People, Needs, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

  Michael Chekhov

  Actors, Ease

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• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Ideas, Events, Actors

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• If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Breathing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Change, Language Words, Action

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Actors, Theater, Stage

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

  Augusto Boal

  People, Weapons, Should

  Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.122, Pluto Press

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• When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Talking, Actors, Fine

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  Cameron Diaz

  Stories, Ends, Modelling

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• It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

  Viola Spolin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Leadership, Loneliness, History

  Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1977). “Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines”

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Common

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

  Chauncey Depew

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.

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• Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

  Craig MacDonald

  Shut Up, Explaining

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• Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Heart, Creating, Essentials

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Listening, Hearing, Active

  "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".

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• The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Giving Up, Character, Use

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• All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

  Glenn Close

  Inspirational, Art, Crafts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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