You need three things in the theater – the play, the actors and the audience, – and each must give something.
Acting - Actors Quotes
The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
Good actors are good because of the things they can tell us without talking. When they are talking, they are the servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.
My suggestion the other day that the lines to be spoken in a new play at the Abbey should be displayed on banners suspended from the balcony and read off by the players as they go along, has won me golden opinions from the acting clique in WAAMA (Irish Writers, Actors, Artists, Musicians Association). They […]
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
