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  • I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

    Real   Acting   Ease  
  • There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

    Doubt   Training   Acting  
  • 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.

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

    Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's
  • Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

  • Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

    Wall   Night   Acting  
    "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000.
  • In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

    Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.131, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

    Running   Eight   Long  
  • My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

    Movie   Wife   Acting  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

    Eye   Lasts   Taste  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
  • Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

    Movie   Thinking   Acting  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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
  • 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.

    Sports   Moving   Player  
  • Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

    Long   Acting   Way  
  • In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

    Careers   Long   Acting  
    "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.
  • I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

    Acting   Roles   Tvs  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black
  • People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

  • Full of wise saws and modern instances.

    Wise   Saws   You Like It  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
  • I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.

    Acting   Stuff   Paint  
    Interview with Matt Rodriguez, shakefire.com.
  • One man in his time plays many parts.

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
  • A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

    Men   People   Acting  
    Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”
  • I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

    Heart   Effort   Theatre  
  • My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

    Funny   Mean   Men  
  • The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

  • I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

    "Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.
  • 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.

    Birthday   Time   Player  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
  • I feel like my home is stage acting.

    Home   Acting   Stage  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
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