Art Quote by Anatole Broyard

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

— Zawe Ashton

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them…

— Antonio Banderas

I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There…

— Howard Stern

All that matters on the stage is good art.

— Jerzy Jeszke

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and…

— Iris Murdoch

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off…

— James Wolcott

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves,…

— Grace Jones

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

— Jennifer Tipton

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

— Amanda Schull

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all…

— Ben Wheatley