I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
May the Force be with you.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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