Theatre Acting Quotes

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

One man in his time plays many parts.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

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.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

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

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

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.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

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

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.