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  • A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and did real plays. You put our plays up against any theater troupe of any age, and they usually did pretty damn well.

    Real   School   Play  
    Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.
  • The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

    Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.19, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

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

  • The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

    Funny   Character   Play  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27
  • Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

    Play   Ideas   Acting  
  • The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

    Ideas   Acting   Events  
  • The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

  • Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

    Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's
  • One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

    Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

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

    Love   Funny   Life  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

    Real   Acting   Actors  
  • Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'

    Light   Acting   Bed  
    Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 23, 2009.
  • I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

    Truth   Lying   Acting  
  • When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

    Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.22, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

  • The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  • The best actors do not let the wheels show.

    Funny   Humorous   Acting  
  • It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  • To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

    People   Acting   Needs  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

    FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from May 09, 2014
  • I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

  • Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

    Perfect   Acting   Actors  
  • I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

    Light   Shoes   Acting  
  • I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

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

  • Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  • The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.

    Source: collider.com
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