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    Please pray the part I got in the pending play I do very very very pleased, fulfilled, satisfied, happy, thrilled, delighted. I will collect proverbs for you because that is what I'm reading. 5k years of them. Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway.
     Just do what you do best. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill.Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space 
    around you, and all it contains. No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. When it is 
    a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't. I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and 
    imagination, rarely. To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. The 
    fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. Others have done it before me. I can, too. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. Ability will never 
    catch up with the demand for it. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. s we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.  know I have the ability to 
    do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in 
    using it.The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. 
    Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. en are in numberless 
    instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a 
    computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'. ever tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. s life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion 
    and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. eing competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself. he differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated 
    in his environment (surroundings). Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better. Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Deep within man dwell those slumbering 
    powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. bility hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. Ability is sexless. The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. xecutive ability is deciding 
    quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. o know how to hide one's ability is great skill. The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. No great intellectual thing was ever done by 
    great effort. The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. atural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. artyrdom is the only 
    way a man can become famous without ability. A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. ll endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, 
    endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. They are able because they think they are able. The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that 
    counts. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. Ability is a poor man's wealth. `You are the only person on earth who 
    can use your ability. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. Man is the 
    only creature that refuses to be what he is. The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
    People only see what they are prepared to see. Accept your genius and say what you think. I was very girl crazy 1996. So many husbands said it'd go away. They were SOO right!!! I'm 48 mar 2, 23! Dee. George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. He is a great man! Once we accept our 
    limits, we go beyond them. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. The only tyrant I accept in this world 
    is the still voice within. Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference 
    in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. We cannot change anything until we accept it. 
    Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human 
    comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree. Our job is to love others without 
    stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't 
    deserve me at my best. Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. Please pray i do fantastically well in the pending play! Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything. For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) 
    he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed 
    with the dust and soot of your complaints. If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. e must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. Acceptance of others, their looks, their 
    behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment. I'm nothing, yet I'm everything. I wish they would only take me as I am. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain 
    from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. This has me in mind. I just got a part as a postman. Please please pray, beg, plead, implore, 
    request, I do very very very well, satisfied, happy, happy, thrilled, delighted. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive... When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter 
    to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint...were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. he actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good 
    since the actors became gentlemen. I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. `A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head 
    just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built. An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role. Please pray 
    i get a leading role in the pednding play. It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm. 
    The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The 
    principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, 
    and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination 
    as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good. From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever 
    I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around. When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before 
    going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain 
    our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. On filming MacHale's Navy The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.


     
    -Miguel de Cervantes
     
       The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.


     
    -Charlie Chaplin
     
       Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.


     
    -Chevy Chase
     
       When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.


     
    -Anton Chekhov
     
       An actor is only merchandise.


     
    -Chow Yun-Fat
     
       I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.


     
    -Glenn Close
     
       To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.


     
    -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
     
       Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.


     
    -John Cusack
     
       Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. On his acting techniques


     
    -Vincent D'Onofrio
     
       I am the Fred Astaire of karate.


     
    -Jean-Claude Van Damme
     
       Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.


     
    -Marion Davies
     
       You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.


     
    -Sammy Davis Jr.
     
       The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.


     
    -Bette Davis
     
       I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.


     
    -Denis Diderot
     
       I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.


     
    -Minnie Driver
     
       I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.


     
    -Elaine Dundy
     
       Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.


     
    -Marguerite Duras
     
       She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.


     
    -Marguerite Duras
     
       If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.


     
    -Desiderius Erasmus
    The Praise of Folly
     
       Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.


     
    -Eugene Field
     
       Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.


     
    -W. C. Fields
     
       The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 5, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
     
       I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, or possibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene...


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 4, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
     
       Above all, ignore the audience....
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    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    As quoted in Actors on Acting, rev. ed., part 13, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich (1970). Said in 1917, to Alexander Woollcott.
     
       Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 3, by Alexander Woollcott (1917) 
    The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakespeare, and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 3, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
     
       As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 3, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
     
       ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.


     
    -Minnie Maddern Fiske
    Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production, ch. 3, by Alexander Woollcott (1917)
     
       The best actors do not let the wheels show.


     
    -Henry Fonda
     
       A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.


     
    -Jane Fonda
     
       I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. On being an actor


     
    -Harrison Ford
     
       The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.


     
    -Edwin Forrest
     
       I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.


     
    -Judy Garland
     
       An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.


     
    -George Glass
     
       Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.


     
    -Jeff Goldblum
     
       Acting is happy agony.


     
    -Sir Alec Guinness
     
       An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.


     
    -Sir Alec Guinness
     
       More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.


     
    -Uta Hagen
     
       Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.


     
    -Robert Half
     
       A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.


     
    -Daryl Hannah
     
       Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor


     
    -Rex Harrison
     
       They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.


     
    -William Hazlitt
     
       We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.


     
    -William Hazlitt
     
       They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.


     
    -William Hazlitt
     
       Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.


     
    -Katharine Hepburn
     
       The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.


     
    -Katharine Hepburn
     
       It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.


     
    -Katharine Hepburn
     
       If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.


     
    -Katharine Hepburn
     
       I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.


     
    -Alfred Hitchcock
     
       You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.


     
    -Ron Howard
     

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       I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.


     
    -Holly Hunter
     
       Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.


     
    -John Huston
     
       Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.


     
    -Aldous Huxley
     
       Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.


     
    -Jeremy Irons
     
       In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.


     
    -Washington Irving
     
       Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.


     
    -Glenda Jackson
     
       Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.


     
    -Glenda Jackson
     
       I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.


     
    -Elton John
     
       An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.


     
    -Alva Johnson
     
       Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.


     
    -Samuel Johnson
     
       Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.


     
    -Patrick Kavanagh
     
       I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiring tremendously as I grew up. And that would be Spencer Tracy... and Bogart and that particular approach to the work. The stillness, the economy, the grace of that work, so they would have been then, my heroes on the screen.


     
    -Ben Kingsley
     
       I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.


     
    -Kevin Kline
     
       I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!


     
    -Angela Lansbury
     
       I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.


     
    -Lucy Lawless
     
       I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either.


     
    -Tea Leoni
     
       The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.


     
    -Daniel Day Lewis
     
       You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.


     
    -Daniel Day Lewis
     
       People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?


     
    -Juliette Lewis
     
       We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?


     
    -Micheal Macliammoir
     
       It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.


     
    -John Malkovich
     
       I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.


     
    -Marcel Marceau
     
       After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.


     
    -Frances McDormand
     
       Actors die so loud.


     
    -Henry Miller
     
       This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.


     
    -Robert Mitchum
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       I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.


     
    -Mary Tyler Moore
     
       Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.


     
    -Roger Moore
     
       Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.


     
    -Jeanne Moreau
     
       Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.


     
    -Jeanne Moreau
     
       Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.


     
    -Paul Newman
     
       Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.


     
    -Paul Newman
     
       Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.


     
    -Lena Olin
     
       I have to act to live.


     
    -Sir Laurence Olivier
     
       The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.


     
    -Al Pacino
     
       Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.


     
    -Camille Anna Paglia
     
       She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.


     
    -Dorothy Parker
     
       You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.


     
    -Sarah Jessica Parker
     
       All men practice the actor's art.


     
    -Petron
     
       Ah just act the way ah feel.


     
    -Elvis Presley
     
       I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.


     
    -Vincent Price
     
       I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?


     
    -Monty Python
     
       In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.


     
    -Anthony Quinn
     
       I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.


     
    -Nancy Reagan
     
       Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.


     
    -Ronald Reagan
     
       A lot of what acting is paying attention.


     
    -Robert Redford
     
       Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.


     
    -Thomas Reid
     
       Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.


     
    -Miranda Richardson
     
       You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.


     
    -Ralph Richardson, "Time Magazine", August 21, 1978
     
       There are no small parts. Only small actors.


     
    -Ginger Rogers
     
       I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. On his college registration experience


     
    -Tom Selleck
     

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       Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.


     
    -William Shakespeare
     
       Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.


     
    -William Shakespeare
     
       Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.


     
    -George Bernard Shaw
     
       An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.


     
    -Norma Shearer
     
       An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.


     
    -Donald Sinden
     
       Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.


     
    -Donald Sinden
     
       You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.


     
    -Mira Sorvino
     
       I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.


     
    -Kevin Spacey
     
       I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.


     
    -Sylvester Stallone
     
       A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.


     
    -Konstantin Stanislavisky
     
       Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.


     
    -Ellen Terry
     
       I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.


     
    -Jonathan Taylor Thomas
     
       There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.


     
    -Spencer Tracy
     
       I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.


     
    -Skeet Ulrich
     
       If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.


     
    -Bill Vaughan
     
       Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.


     
    -Orson Welles
     
       I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.


     
    -Forest Whitaker
     
       While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.


     
    -Oscar Wilde
     
       Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.


     
    -Oscar Wilde
     

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       I love acting. It is so much more real than life.


     
    -Oscar Wilde
     
       If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.


     
    -Elijah Wood
     
       Actors are one family over the entire world.


     
    -Alfre Woodard
     
       The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.


     
    -Billy Zane
     

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