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  • " It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential."

    - Robert Morley

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

    - George Burns

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is fifty percent of the performance."

    - Shirley Booth

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."

    - Laurence Olivier

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Walk in, plant yourself, look the other person in the eye, and tell the truth."

    - James Cagney

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin."

    - Katherine Hepburn

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman."

    - Tallulah Bankhead

    Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography


  • " Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one."

    - Robert Brustein

    Source: http://izquotes.com/


  • " Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much."

    - John Wayne

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are."

    - Marlon Brando

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life."

    - Albert Finney

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " If you cried a little less, the audience would cry more."

    - Edith Evans

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Have a very good reason for everything you do."

    - Laurence Olivier

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Play well, or play badly, but play truly."

    - Konstantin Stanislavsky

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture."

    - Spencer Tracy

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing."

    - George M. Cohan

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength."

    - Laurence Olivier

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Pray to God and say the lines."

    - Bette Davis

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " Act in your pauses."

    - Ellen Terry

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur


  • " If you want to help the American theatre, don't be an actress, be an audience."

    - Tallulah Bankhead

    Source: Friendly Advice by Jon Winokur