Acting Quotes

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a 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.

Ethel Barrymore

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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. On being an actor

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The best actors do not let the wheels show.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

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Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through h

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

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I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

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An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has n

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

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Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my

Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.

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When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating wal

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint...were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

James Agee, On deadpan comedian

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive...

James Agee, On deadpan comedian

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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source o

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

Camille Anna Paglia

Acting Actors

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on wa

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.

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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my pro

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

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You know how in high school you do these plays and people co

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

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You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day Lewis

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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion,

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Daniel Day Lewis

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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope da

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theater Acting

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

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Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them

Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

Acting Actors