Poet Quote by Marlon Brando Download Open image “An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.” — Marlon Brando ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Theatre
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to… — Arthur Lowe Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
Of course I am an actor but I consider myself as an entertainer as well. — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into… — Gu Cheng Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
