Acting Quote by H. L. Mencken

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these…

— Barbara Cook

I think actors are meant to have crises of faith; I think it's part of the job. I think it makes you a stronger…

— Hale Appleman

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find…

— Constantin Stanislavski

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my…

— Diana Silvers

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

— Maxwell Anderson

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an…

— Eddie Marsan

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to…

— Terry Eagleton

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

— Antony Sher

Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment--to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the…

— David Ackert

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce…

— Aristotle