Acting And Actors

(87 votes)   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
1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

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(36 votes)   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.

Konstantin Stanislavisky
1863-1968, Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher

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(275 votes)   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.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(49 votes)   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.

Jeanne Moreau
1928-, French Actress and Director

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(66 votes)   Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman
1925-, American Actor, Director, Philanthropist, Producer

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(42 votes)   Acting is happy agony.

Sir Alec Guiness
1914-, British Actor

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(41 votes)   Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Thomas Reid
1710-1769, Scottish Philosopher

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(26 votes)   Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Jeff Goldblum
1952-, American Actor, Acting teacher

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(53 votes)   Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando
1924-, American Actor, Director

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(27 votes)   Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Glenda Jackson
1936-, British Actress and politician

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(87 votes)   Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Patrick Kavanagh
1905-1967, Irish Poet, Author

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(56 votes)   Actors are one family over the entire world.

Alfre Woodard
1953-, American Actress

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(90 votes)   Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Donald Sinden
1923-, British Actor

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(33 votes)   After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Frances McDormand

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(43 votes)   Ah just act the way ah feel.

Elvis Presley
1935-1977, American Singer, Actor

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