Actors Quotes

5276 Actors quotes by 2563 unique authors

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. — Sophocles
The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler
I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at… — Unknown Author
You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the… — Laurence Sterne
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if… — Alec Guinness
An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills. — Mark Leslie
In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is… — James Carver
It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast. — John Gielgud
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make… — Eleanora Duse
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.… — Laurence Sterne
Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also… — Jules Fisher
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish… — Wallace Shawn
A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. — Eric Bentley
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays… — Robert Edmond Jones
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience,… — Christine Jones
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity… — Aldous Huxley
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. — William Manchester
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding… — Jan de Bont
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he… — Conrad Veidt
Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and… — Larry Silverberg
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew.… — Rider Strong
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it… — Colleen Atwood
It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not… — Taryn Manning
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests… — Matthew Lillard

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