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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Marguerite Duras
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Elaine Dundy
I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience.
Ronald Reagan
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Kevin Spacey
All men practice the actor's art.
Petron
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Donald Sinden
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
Patrick Kavanagh
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Edwin Forrest
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
Micheal Macliammoir
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Kevin Kline
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, or possibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene...
Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske
Above all, ignore the audience....http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Minnie%20Maddern%20Fiske
Minnie Maddern Fiske, As quoted
The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Jeff Goldblum
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Bill Vaughan
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
Thomas Campbell
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.
Jacqueline Bisset, Interview on
