Acting Quotes - Page 35

• The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Real, Essence

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Grateful, Actors, Enjoy

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• The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

  Ilka Chase

  Successful, Opportunity, Play

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Acting is not my language at all.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Language

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• What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Strong, Children, Punishment

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• The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Essence, Understanding

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• My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Father, Play, Ashes

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• On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

  Karl Kraus

  Personality, Actors, Stage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Fire, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Hollywood, Closets

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• The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

  Robert Brustein

  Hero, Eye, Our Generation

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• Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

  Donald Freed

  School, Sadness, Drs

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• The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Attitude, Heart

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• Every single night I'm nervous.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fear, Night, Actors

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• Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

  Frank Rich

  Kings, Endurance, Odd

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• On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.

  Natasha Richardson

  Hurt, Pain, Father

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• Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Stars, Care, Guests

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• We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Music, Art, Mean

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Power, Unique, Air

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• ... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

  Nance O'Neil

  Faith, Art, Drama

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• The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Reading, Dust, Soul

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• Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Beautiful, Play, Black

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• More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, Father, Advice

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• I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Creative, Lost, Process

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.

  Denis O'Hare

  Mean, Awards, Blood

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