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.
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.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
Acting is an everlasting search for truth.
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
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.
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?
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.
What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?
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