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“Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws”
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
“I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.”
Ewan McGregor
“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.”
Michael Caine
“I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”
Laurence Olivier Sir
“A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. S”
Dalai Lama
“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.”
Christy Mathewson
“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.”
Alfred North Whitehead