Actors Quotes

• "You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator."
  By: Ralph Richardson
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• "An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego."
  By: Sir Alec Guinness
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• "The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on."
  By: Jacqueline Bisset
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• "You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm."
  By: Sarah Bernhardt
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• "It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."
  By: Ingrid Bergman
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• "An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role."
  By: Eleanor Robson Belmont
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• "A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built."
  By: Eleanor Robson Belmont
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• "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a 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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• "When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint...were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift."
  By: James Agee
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• "He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive..."
  By: James Agee
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• "On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting:
   'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. "
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his rattle to be tedious."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Have patience with the jealousies and petulances of actors, for their hour is their eternity."
  By: Richard Garnett
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• "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
  By: Elizabeth Taylor
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• "The stock actor is a stage calamity."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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