Theatre Acting Quotes

• I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

  Kate Bosworth

  Acting, Scare, Theatre

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• The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

  Stella Adler

  Spiritual, Theatre, Rays

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.30, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

  Jack Lemmon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Break Up, Originality, Tradition

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, People, Greek

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, Greek, Theatre

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.29, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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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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• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

  Kate Reid

  Emotional, Acting, Actors

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• There are no small parts. Only small actors.

  Ginger Rogers

  Actors, Small Parts, Actors And Acting

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• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Tim Robbins

  Acting, Actors, Boring

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• An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  Alec Guinness

  Two, Heaven, Theatre

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• Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

  Clive Swift

  Sports, Moving, Player

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• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

  Rosalind Russell

  Motivational, Theatre, Acting

  "Life is a Banquet". Book by Rosalind Russell, 1977.

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• What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [584]

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Crafts, Suits

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Simple, Law, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.246, A&C Black

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• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Acting, Actors, Remember

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• The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Feelings, Acting, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.320, Routledge

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• I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Essence

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

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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