Actors Quotes

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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

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All men practice the actor's art.

All men practice the actor's art.

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Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite e

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.

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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick t

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

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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgo

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its f

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

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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I

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.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to

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

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I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at

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

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Above all, ignore the audience....http://www.poemhunter.com/

Above all, ignore the audience....http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Minnie%20Maddern%20Fiske

Minnie Maddern Fiske, As quoted

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The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the

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.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he l

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not eve

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

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The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready fo

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

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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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