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Acting and the Theatre QuotesFamous Acting and the Theatre quotes by popular authors such as Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, William Shakespeare, Thornton Wilder, Kenneth Tynan and others.
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[highlight-text]The play's the thing.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Acting is happy agony.
Alec Guinness
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[highlight-text]Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
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[highlight-text]A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius
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[highlight-text]Satire is what closes Saturday night.
George S. Kaufman
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[highlight-text]Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
Roger Moore
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[highlight-text]A play visibly represents pure existing.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
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[highlight-text]An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Edwin Booth
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[highlight-text]The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Henry Fonda
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[highlight-text]We're actors--we're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard
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[highlight-text]I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Alec Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
Lilli Palmer
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[highlight-text]As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.
Robert H. Gurney
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[highlight-text]Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.
Richard Lester
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[highlight-text]I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.
Sir Laurence Olivier
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[highlight-text]An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma.'
Lenny Bruce
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[highlight-text]A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
George Jean Nathan
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[highlight-text]The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
Arthur Gingold
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[highlight-text]In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
Rex Reed
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[highlight-text]When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
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[highlight-text]Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.
Ronald Jeans
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[highlight-text]Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.
Kate Reid
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[highlight-text]With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.
Alvin Barkley
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[highlight-text]If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
Katharine Hepburn
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[highlight-text]Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
Mackenzie Astin
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[highlight-text]An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.
Alva Johnston
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[highlight-text]Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles
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[highlight-text]Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
Thomas L. Masson
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[highlight-text]On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
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[highlight-text]The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Stephen Leacock
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[highlight-text]The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
Arthur Miller
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[highlight-text]The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
Bette Davis
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[highlight-text]A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
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[highlight-text]Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.
Josephine Hull
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[highlight-text]Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.
W. Boyd Gatewood
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[highlight-text]The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James
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[highlight-text]All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.
Beryl Pfizer
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[highlight-text]A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
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[highlight-text]A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.
Jack Carson
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[highlight-text]By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
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[highlight-text]Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Paul Newman
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[highlight-text]A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.
Kenneth Haigh
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[highlight-text]Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate
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[highlight-text]When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn.
Spike Jones
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[highlight-text]The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good it's still all right.
Max Wall
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[highlight-text]If there's anything unsettling to the stomach it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholson
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[highlight-text]You've got guys in charge of shows who probably went to school for chemistry, and now they're executive producers.
Bernie Mac
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[highlight-text]The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
Bene Davis
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[highlight-text]To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
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[highlight-text]I'll always perform because show business is in my blood. Or maybe it's in my feet. Wherever it is I don't think I'll ever stop.
Robin Williams
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[highlight-text]We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]If you get an impulse in a scene no matter how wrong it seems follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson
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[highlight-text]The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review a collection of songs and sketches preferably with a satirical bias.
Nathan Cohen
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[highlight-text]A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
William T. Wylie
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[highlight-text]The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan
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[highlight-text]If you're successful acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
Maxwell Anderson
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[highlight-text]Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse — it's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Marlon Brando
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[highlight-text]True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
Eugene Ionesco
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[highlight-text]When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
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[highlight-text]The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.
Kenneth Tynan
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[highlight-text]There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi?
Herschel Bernardi
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[highlight-text]Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson
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[highlight-text]There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
Peggy Ashcroft
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[highlight-text]In music the punctuation is absolutely strict the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Ralph Richardson
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[highlight-text]I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds which is what at heart - bless 'em - they are.
J. B. Priestley
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[highlight-text]When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor I want them to have the control otherwise it's going to become predictably my work and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson