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  • " Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut."

    - Charles Laughton

    Source: Wikipedia (under Bette Davis)


  • " If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last."

    - Anton Chekhov

    Source: http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art


  • " A good play tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad play tells us the truth about its author."

    - G.K. Chesterton

    Source: http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art


  • " I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances -- the curtains were up."

    - Groucho Marx

    Source: http://www.ag.wastholm.net/category/art


  • " If I wanted to have people tell me what to do, I would have become an actor."

    - Rob Hudd

    Source: http://www.denagy.com/techiejokes/tjokes.html


  • " If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets."

    - Tommy Kendrick

    Source: http://www.denagy.com/techiejokes/tjokes.html


  • " Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."

    - Uta Hagen

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

    - Uta Hagen

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be."

    - Judi Dench

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part."

    - Sophocles

    Source: http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/acting_t003.htm


  • " The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting."

    - Sanford Meisner

    Source: http://www.aldersonstudio.com/quotes/index.html


  • " You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done."

    - Sanford Meisner

    Source: http://www.aldersonstudio.com/quotes/index.html


  • " The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you."

    - Sanford Meisner

    Source: http://www.aldersonstudio.com/quotes/index.html


  • " If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion."

    - Sanford Meisner

    Source: http://www.aldersonstudio.com/quotes/index.html


  • " The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."

    - Stella Adler

    Source: http://www.brainyquote.com


  • " An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills."

    - Mark Leslie

    Source: http://www.denagy.com/techiejokes/tjokes.html


  • " Definition of Stage Manager: The person who rarely gets credit when everything goes right."

    - Anonymous


  • " I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."

    - Uta Hagen