Theatre Actors Quotes

• There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

  George Clooney

  Reality, Order, Thank God

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• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

  Kate Reid

  Emotional, Acting, Actors

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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• You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

  Kenneth Haigh

  Play, Giving, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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• An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

  Edwin Booth

  Snow, Theatre, Actors

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• Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Acting, Actors, Remember

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Practice, Acting, Stage Actors

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• There are no small parts. Only small actors.

  Ginger Rogers

  Actors, Theatre Acting, Small Parts

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• In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Theatre, Actors

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• The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

  "Marlon Brando: The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, Ch.13, 1985.

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• 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.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

  Frank Capra

  Motivational, Mistake, Drama

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Sarcastic, Acting

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• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Personality, Acting

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

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

  Jack Lemmon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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