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The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good.
- Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)
Acting and actors Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Acting and actors

1.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Hepburn, Katharine

2.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Wood, Elijah

3.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
John, Elton

4.
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.
Driver, Minnie

5.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Close, Glenn

6.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

7.
I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
Stallone, Sylvester

8.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]
Selleck, Tom

9.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Half, Robert

10.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Cervantes, Miguel De

11.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Welles, Orson

12.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Quinn, Anthony

13.
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
Campbell, Thomas

14.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

15.
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Moore, Roger

16.
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?
Macliammoir, Micheal

17.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Hepburn, Katharine

18.
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
Auden, W. H.

19.
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Zane, Billy

20.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Fields, W. C.

21.
I have to act to live.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

22.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Malkovich, John

23.
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.
You are not in business to be popular.
Alley, Kirstie

25.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Bernhardt, Sarah

26.
I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!
Lansbury, Angela

27.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Glass, George

28.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Woodard, Alfre

29.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Hazlitt, William

30.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Spacey, Kevin

31.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Vaughan, Bill

32.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Damme, Jean-Claude Van

33.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Barrymore, Ethel

35.
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.
Kavanagh, Patrick

36.
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Fiske, Minnie

37.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Lawless, Lucy

38.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Moreau, Jeanne

39.
Acting is happy agony.
Guiness, Sir Alec

40.
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]
Campbell, Bruce

41.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Presley, Elvis

42.
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.
Moreau, Jeanne

43.
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat

44.
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bresson, Robert

46.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Duras, Marguerite

47.
Actors die so loud.
Miller, Henry

48.
I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
Ulrich, Skeet

49.
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
Sorvino, Mira

50.
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Duras, Marguerite


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