1,862 Quotes About Acting

It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness...

Nevis tas moments ir skaists, kad tu runā, bet tas, kad tu klusē.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

COUNT ON ONLY 1 PERSON ..THE PERSON WHO YOU KNOW 100% WILL BE THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH OF LIFE...THAT PERSON YOU MUST COUNT ON IS YOU!