Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.
Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
Acting is an everlasting search for truth.
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.
Acting, is not a profession for adults.
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
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