| Author |
Quotes |
| Alec Guinness | Acting is happy agony. |
| Alexander Pope | A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. |
| Alexander Pope | There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. |
| Alexander Pope | To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold-- For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage. |
| Alexander Pope | Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage; Be justly warm'd with your own native rage. |
| Arthur Gingold | Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. |
| David Garrick | Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse. |
| David Garrick | Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. |
| Edmund Vance Cooke | But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth. |
| Henry Fonda | The best actors do not let the wheels show. |
| Horatius Flaccus | And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. |
| J G Saxe | Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, Especially the ghost. |
| Jean Anouilh | A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. |
| John Dennis | See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. |
| Kate Reid | Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion |
| Kenneth Haigh | You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something. |
| Lilli Palmer | I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. |
| Oscar Wilde | The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. |
| Paul Newman | Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. |
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