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MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:27:21 PM »

[highlight-text]The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:28:16 PM »

[highlight-text]A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:29:17 PM »

[highlight-text]Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.

Josephine Hull

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:30:02 PM »

[highlight-text]Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.

W. Boyd Gatewood

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** January 12, 2016, 08:30:39 PM »

[highlight-text]The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

Samuel Johnson

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:03:00 PM »

[highlight-text]The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:03:25 PM »

[highlight-text]She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Clive James

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:03:51 PM »

[highlight-text]All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

Beryl Pfizer

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:04:18 PM »

[highlight-text]A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:05:25 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:05:52 PM »

[highlight-text]By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Peter Ustinov

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:06:18 PM »

[highlight-text]Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:06:51 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:07:18 PM »

[highlight-text]You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

Kenneth Haigh

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** January 14, 2016, 05:07:47 PM »

[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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