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“Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.”
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“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.”
Ninon de Lenclos quotes (French courtesan, Her beauty and wit attracted famous men of the day; wrote La Coquette Vengee (1659). 1620-1705)
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“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
Ralph Richardson quotes (English Actor, 1902-1983)
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“Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.”
Alyssa Milano quotes (American Actress. b.1972 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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“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.”
Alec Guinness quotes
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“Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.”
Thornton Wilder quotes (American writer of innovative plays and novels, 1897-1975)
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“As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage-it is an audience.”
R. Z. Sheppard quotes
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“The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.”
Reese Witherspoon quotes (American Actress, b.1976)
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“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
Jack Lemon quotes
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“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
Ethel Barrymore quotes
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“Without acting I cannot breathe.”
Laurence Olivier, Sir quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director, 1907-1989)
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