Acting Quotes
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Chekhov, Anton
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Marlowe, Julia
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
Nazimova, Alla
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
Richardson, Sir Ralph
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Ristori, Adelaide
The actor can be compared to the soldier. The former dazzled by his triumphs, sighs continually for the struggles of stage- life; the latter filled with the glory he has acquired on the battlefield, cannot resign himself to peace.
Shakespeare, William
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 prattle to be tedious.
Shakespeare, William
All the world ’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Sinden, Donald
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Terry, Ellen
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor’s art infinite.
Thackeray, William
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 word 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.