Actors Quotes - Page 7

• When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

  Anton Chekhov

  Money, Literature, Letters

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

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• I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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• Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

  Greta Scacchi

  Space, Theatre, Sacred

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• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Lunch, Interesting, Documentaries

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• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Acting, Emotion

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

  Richard Hornby

  Exercise, Play, Training

  Richard Hornby (1992). “The End of Acting: A Radical View”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

  Richard Hornby

  Theatre, Acting, Identity

  Richard Hornby (1986). “Drama, Metadrama and Perception”, p.71, Associated University Presse

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• The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Delight, Celebration, Moments

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• I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Way, Inspired

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• I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

  William Hurt

  Artist, Want, Narcissist

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

  Art, Keeping Secrets, Giving

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• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acting, Want, Realizing

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• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

  Alan Rickman

  Talking, Bored, God Knows

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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• I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

  Sasha Alexander

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

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• Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

  James Spader

  Believe, Love Is, Emotion

  Playboy, May 2005.

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

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Theatre, Television

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• For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

  Camryn Manheim

  Ideas, Long, Should

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• Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him

  Daphne Zuniga

  Confidence, Real, College

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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