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  • " By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings."

    - Arthur Miller

    Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller


  • " It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times."

    - William Prynne

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  • " I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."

    - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  • " In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple."

    - J.M. Synge

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  • " Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull."

    - Rod Serling

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " Theater is life, film is art, television is furniture."

    - Unknown


  • " You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you."

    - Ben Kingsley


  • " All the world's a stage. Some of us just have better seats."

    - Unknown


  • " Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control."

    - Noel Coward


  • " Theater is so critical because it has always been able to release people from their isolation... The theater is a communal event, church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is just the longings of one heart."

    - Marsha Norman


  • " The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent."

    - Howard Stein

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips


  • " Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows."

    - Florence Klotz

    Source: It Happened On Broadway


  • " Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."

    - Humphrey Bogart


  • " You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good."

    - Glenda Jackson

    Source: People, March 1985


  • " One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."

    - Robert De Niro


  • " A lot of what acting is paying attention."

    - Robert Redford


  • " 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


  • " All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real."

    - Constantin Stanislavski


  • " Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age."

    - Marlon Brando

    Source: Newsweek, 13 March 1972


  • " You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts."

    - Jeremy Irons

    Source: American Film magazine