“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Oscar Wilde
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
Ralph Richardson
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”
Orson Welles
“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?”
Drew Barrymore
“The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.”
Reese Witherspoon
