To be an actor you have to be a child.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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 […]
That fellow is the world’s greatest actor. He can do with no effort what the rest of us spent years trying to learn; to be perfectly natural.
Remember that you are an actor in a play, which is as the playwright wants it to be: short if he wants it short, long if he wants it long. If he wants you to play a beggar, play even this part skillfully, or a cripple, or a public official, or a private citizen. What […]
It was only one of those plays in which the actors, unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.
