I had to resort to acting. (on how he managed to play Dr. Mengele)
Acting - Actors Quotes
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.
Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time.
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
The stock actor is a stage calamity.
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in a tragedy or a comedy, whether they will suffer, will make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life is different. Most men and women are forced perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Gildersterns play Hamlet for us, and […]
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.
