Everyone knows that people outside show business have show business fantasies-to be an actor, write a script, direct. What most people don’t know is that people in show business have retail fantasies – a little restaurant, maybe a ball team. I want a bookstore.
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part.
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. (Field was referring to Creston Clarke’s performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.)
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
