Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.
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We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.
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My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
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What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs? A philosopher
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Perfectly Scandalous was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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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.
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For fast acting relief, try slowing down
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Acting is happy agony.
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Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
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The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
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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.
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Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord
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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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