Actors And Acting Quotes - Page 2

• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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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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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

  Art, Keeping Secrets, Giving

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• There are no small parts. Only small actors.

  Ginger Rogers

  Actors, Theatre Acting, Small Parts

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• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acting, Actors, Want

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• After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

  Paul Dalio

  School, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Years, Acting, Stage Actors

  "Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.

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