Quotes about acting and actors

"A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination."

Terry, Ellen on acting and actors   

"I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches."

Thomas, Jonathan Taylor on acting and actors   

"There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails."

Tracy, Spencer on acting and actors   

"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."

Ulrich, Skeet on acting and actors   

"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."

Vaughan, Bill on acting and actors   

"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."

Welles, Orson on acting and actors   

"I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant."

Whitaker, Forest on acting and actors   

"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors   

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors
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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors   

"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors   

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

Wilder, Thornton on acting and actors
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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

Wood, Elijah on acting and actors   

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

Woodard, Alfre on acting and actors   

"The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good."

Zane, Billy on acting and actors