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

    - Jeremy Irons

    Source: American Film magazine


  • " One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement."

    - John Gielgud


  • " Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent."

    - Anthony Quinn

    Source: Sunday Express, 1960


  • " I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."

    - Michael Caine

    Source: Film Yearbook, 1985


  • " It's not enough to have talent, you have to have a talent for your talent."

    - Stella Adler


  • " Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen."

    - Uta Hagen


  • " 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


  • " Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."

    - Ellen Barkin


  • " I haven't really written my plays and books -- I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood."

    - Sebastian Barry


  • " For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

    - Ethel Barrymore

    Source: George Jean Nathan: The Theatre in the Fifties


  • " Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

    - Marlon Brando


  • " Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."

    - Alfred Hitchcock


  • " A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."

    - Terence Rattigan

    Source: http://theatre.usc.edu/whatistheatre


  • " The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art."

    - Roman Rolland

    Source: http://www.wisdomportal.com/Quotes


  • " My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."

    - Gwyneth Paltrow

    Source: http://www.worldofquotes.com


  • " Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."

    - Alan Jay Lerner

    Source: http://www.worldofquotes.com


  • " The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."

    - Oscar Wilde

    Source: http://www.worldofquotes.com


  • " I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?"

    - Clive Barnes


  • " Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine."

    - Brooks Atksinson


  • " Acting expresses a part of the self otherwise hidden to the conscious mind."

    - Lisa M. O'Neill