Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.
Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
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.
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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.
I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.
An actor is only merchandise.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
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