(1121 quotes found)
“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
“Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!”
Bette Davis
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
Arthur Helps
“Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.”
Ani Difranco
“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits”
Dustin Hoffman
“When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.”
Harold Macmillan
“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.”
“When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”
Cedric Hardwicke
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”
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