All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
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.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce 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.
The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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