Being in this business is a lot better than working in a car factory, a lot better than working in a coal mine. What’s the big deal? People who moan and bitch and complain about what they do, I just want to say, “Then leave! Get out of it! Go do something else!” I mean, […]
Acting - Actors Quotes
Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Essentially, I’m a small-part actor who’s been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled.
I wasn’t driven to acting by an inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
You need three things in the theater – the play, the actors and the audience, – and each must give something.
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.
