Acting Quotes

• "The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."
  By: Roland Barthes
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• "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
  By: Ethel Barrymore
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• "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."
  By: Ellen Barkin
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• "We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to."
  By: Henri Frederic Amiel
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• "You are not in business to be popular."
  By: Kirstie Alley
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• "Comedians are not actors; they are only imitators of actors."
  By: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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• "Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life."
  By: Denzel Washington
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• "In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse."
  By: Edmund Waller, Maid's Tragedy (prologue)
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• "The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell; A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome work and task; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray, The End of the Play
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• "I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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• "Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth."
  By: Konstantin Stanislavsky
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• "Lo, where the Stage, the poor, degraded Stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age!"
  By: Charles Sprague, Curiosity
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• "A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part."
  By: Sophocles
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• "[The] play of limbs succeeds the play of wit."
  By: Horace Smith and James Smith
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• "Where they do agree on the stage, then unanimity is wonderful."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• "Notwithstanding all that has advanced so very ingeniously upon plays and players, their profession is, like that of a painter, one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end is virtue."
  By: William Shenstone
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