A great actress, from the waist down
- Dame Margaret Kendal
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Dramatic art in her opinion is
knowing how to fill a sweater
- Bette Davis
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Modesty is the artifice of actors,
similar to passion in call girls
- Jackie Gleason
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The Russians love Brooke Shields
because her eyebrows remind them
of Leonid Brezhnev
- Robin Williams
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing
- Sir Ralph Richardson
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life - Oscar Wilde
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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
- Marlon Brando
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation
- Bette Davis
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed
- Wayne Dyer
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
So what the hell, leap
- Cynthia Heimel
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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
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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
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience
- Paul Newman
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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion...The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust
- Charles Dickens
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors
- Unknown
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor
- Roger Moore
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Ancient Quotes & Anecdotes : From Crib to Crypt
- Vernon K. Robbins



Accents :
A Manual for Actors
- R. Blumenfeld