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Quotes about Acting

Your performance is not about you. It is about you giving the gift of your talent to your audience.

Marianni Magnuson
 
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Thinking before speaking can eliminate embarrassment.

Mr. Prophet
Source: Mr. Prophet speaks
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Thinking before acting often eliminates the need to apologize.

Mr. Prophet
Source: Mr. Prophet speaks
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Don't you see!? We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

Anna Deavere Smith
Source: interview
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What works for acting works for life. To act brilliantly, to live fully, requires nothing less than the complete investment of your entire soul! What we do is holy!

Alice Saltzman
 
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“It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world.  To reach out is to risk.  There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self”

Anne Bogart
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Who talks by silence, does the most.

Peter Cajander
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I was in rehearsals, waiting behind a door to come out while a couple onstage were having a row. They started throwing furniture and a chair lodged in front of the door.

My cue came and I could only get halfway in. I stopped and said, 'I can't get in. The chair's in the way.'

And the producer said, 'Use the difficulty.'

I said, 'What do you mean?'

And he said, 'Well, if it's a drama [you're acting in], pick up the chair and smash it. If it's a comedy, fall over it.'

This idea stuck in my mind, and I taught it to my children -- that any situation in life that's negative, there is something positive you can do with it.

Michael Caine (1933 - )
Source: Michael Caine interviewed by Parkinson on television
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Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Walter Anderson
 
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So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
 
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As it is with a play, so it is with life-what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Source: Letters from a Stoic
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne Dyer : Gaia Child
Wayne Dyer
 
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen R. Covey : American author, trainer, motivator
Stephen Covey (1932 - )
 
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It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: The Malakand Field Force, 1898
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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor--unassisted.

Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
 
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The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task: And when he's laughed and said his say He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay.

William Makepeace Thackeray : English novelist & satirist
William Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
Source: The End of the Play.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
 
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In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
 
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[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

Vincent Canby (1924 - )
Source: On Cary Grant, in New York Times, 1 December 1986.
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He's acting alone. He's cut off from his chain of command. He's exhibiting symptoms of pressure-induced psychosis, and he has a nuclear weapon. So as a personal favour to me, would you lay off him?

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
 
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The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the [Constitutional] Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. . . . And further, that ordinarily when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: United States Supreme Court, 1939 U.S. v. Miller
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Learning and then not acting on what you learn is like plowing and then never planting.

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: Albert W. Daw Collection
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Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

Thomas Jefferson : American statesman (3rd US President: 1801-09), wrote Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Source: Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven, July 12, 1801.
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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

Thomas Frank
Source: (The Conquest of Cool)
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Acting is a form of confusion.

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
 
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
 
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If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,-some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,-and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.

Sydney Smith : English clergyman & essayist
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Source: Sketches of Moral Philosophy.
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The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

Stella Adler (1901 - 1992)
 
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The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

Stella Adler (1901 - 1992)
 
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