Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (1927)
Acting - Actors Quotes
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (Hamlet)
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, […]
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I had to resort to acting. (on how he managed to play Dr. Mengele)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the […]
To be natural is a very difficult pose to keep up.
