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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. -- Fonda, Jane | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Fonda, Jane at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com A lot of what acting is paying attention. -- Redford, Robert | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Redford, Robert at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. -- Brecht, Bertolt | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Brecht, Bertolt at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there. -- Hannah, Daryl | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Hannah, Daryl at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist. -- Stanislavisky, Konstantin | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Stanislavisky, Konstantin at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. -- Huxley, Aldous | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Huxley, Aldous at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. -- Moreau, Jeanne | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Moreau, Jeanne at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. -- Duras, Marguerite | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Duras, Marguerite at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. -- Barkin, Ellen | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Barkin, Ellen at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. -- Newman, Paul | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Newman, Paul at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is happy agony. -- Guiness, Sir Alec | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Guiness, Sir Alec at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. -- Jackson, Glenda | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Jackson, Glenda at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. -- Reid, Thomas | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Reid, Thomas at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. -- Goldblum, Jeff | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Goldblum, Jeff at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. -- Brando, Marlon | Acting and Actors Send to friend | View Books by Brando, Marlon at Amazon.com | Books about Acting and Actors at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 142 Pages: 1 of 10 next  View all quotes