Acting Quotes - Page 9

• When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

  Stella Adler

  Important, World, Stage

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.22, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Destiny, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Light, Actors

  Table Talk 17 Apr. 1823 (1835)

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

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Actors, Remember, Small Parts

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• I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Busy, Too Busy

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• You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creativity, Night, Two

  City Limits, April 07, 1988.

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• Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

  Sanford Meisner

  Circumstances, Imaginary, Theatre Actors

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• Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Actors, Infinite

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Actors, Tiny

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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. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  Jack Lemmon

  Emotional, Intellectual, Naked

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• You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Names, Done, Lines

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Actors, Want, Realizing

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• I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

  Ava Gardner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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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, Actors

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• I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Family, Way

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

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• I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

  Nancy Reagan

  Political, Training, Politics

  "Business: The Ultimate Resource". Book by Daniel P. Goleman, 2002.

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• Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

  Armand Assante

  Emotional, Love Emotion, Sensations

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• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Natural, Stage

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 101 (on Garrick)

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• For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Breakup, Stress

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• The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

  Tom Cruise

  Surprise, Moments, Exciting

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• Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

  John Gielgud

  Theatre, Half, Forget You

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

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• The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

  Alla Nazimova

  Character, Play, Tree

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• Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Up To You, Actors, Scene

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

  Laurence Olivier

  Funny, Humorous, Adults

  In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33

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