~ Acting and the Theatre Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Thornton Wilder

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If there's anything unsettling to the stomach it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Marlon Brando

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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