Noel Coward Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

  Noel Coward

  Journey, Acting, Literature

  Quoted in Dick Richards, The Wit of Noel Coward (1968). According to Richards, Coward said this during the run of his play Nude with Violin (1956 - 1957). See Fontanne 1

• It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Years, Play

  "The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times".

• You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Friday, Motivation

• Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

  Noel Coward

  Eight, Mad, Theatre

• Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

  Noel Coward

  Theatre, Acting, States

• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, Years

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