Acting Quote by Minnie Maddern Fiske

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

— Paul Greengrass

“An actor is no more than an assortment of odds and ends which barely add upp to a whole man. An actor is an…

— Alec Guinness Blessings in disguise

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and…

— Malcolm Lowry

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation…

— Malcolm Lowry

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your…

— Anne Carson

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

— Anonymous

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience…

— Wright Morris

An actor works with their soul and their thought

— Monica Bellucci

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.…

— Sarah Bernhardt

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon