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... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.
Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske
I have to act to live.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Billy Zane
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Minnie Driver
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Anthony Quinn
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Charlie Chaplin
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Miranda Richardson
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Robert Redford
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Samuel Johnson
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor
Rex Harrison
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
Thomas Reid
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Eugene Field
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
JeanClaude Van Damme
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Glenn Close
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Jane Fonda
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Katharine Hepburn
