Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, […]
Acting - Actors Quotes
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I had to resort to acting. (on how he managed to play Dr. Mengele)
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.
