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“I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.”
Laurence Olivier, Sir quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director, 1907-1989)
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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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“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 actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.”
Laurence Olivier, Sir quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director, 1907-1989)
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“When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”
Cedric Hardwicke quotes
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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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“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.”
Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)
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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
Arthur Helps quotes (English Historian and Novelist, 1813-1875)
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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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“I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.”
Jack Nicholson quotes (American Actor, Producer and Film Director. b.1937)
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