Acting Quotes

• "I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama."
  By: Charlotte Cushman
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• "The actor is in, the capacity of a steward to every living muse, and of an executor to every departed one: the poet digs up the ore; he sifts it from the dross, refines and purifies it for the mint; the actor sets the stamp upon it, and makes it, current in the world."
  By: Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough (1)
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• "But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth."
  By: Edmund Vance Cooke, The Other One was Booth
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• "Johnson told Garrick that he and his profession were mutually indebted to each other. "Your profession," said the doctor, "has made you rich; and you have made your profession respectable.""
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "To see Kean act was like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "As good as a play."
  By: attributed to Charles II, while listening to a debate on Lord Ross's Divorce Bill
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• "And what the actor could effect, The scholar could presage."
  By: Thomas Campbell
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• "Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time; Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best, And turn'd some very serious things to jest. Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers, Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers; "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute! Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote. We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens, When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Hints from Horace (l. 329)
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• "Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire."
  By: Joseph Addison
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• "We're actors - we're the opposite of people."
  By: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
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• "Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."
  By: John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
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• "Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
  By: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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• "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
  By: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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• "For fast-acting relief, try slowing"
  By: Lily Tomlin
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• "Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us"
  By: Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. Laurence Olivier
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• "If a face like Ingrid Bergman''s looks at you as though you''re adorable, everybody does"
  By: You don't have to act very much. Humphrey Bogart
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