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.
I hope to God I don’t win an Oscar. It would really depress me if I did.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Some of the greatest love affairs I’ve known have involved one actor unassisted.
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
