Able Quote by Julia Marlowe

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

— Ellen Terry

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to…

— Stella Adler

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

— Sylvie Guillem

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a…

— Michael Eklund

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

— Anita Loos

“What a lot of failed and mediocre actors do not realize, probably because it is ironic, is that the key to being a great…

— Jack Freestone

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato