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Quotes about acting and actors
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You are not in business to be popular. (Beatty Warren)
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. (Beatty Warren)
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. (Beatty Warren)
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. (Beatty Warren)
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. (Beatty Warren)
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. (Beatty Warren)
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. (Beatty Warren)
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. (Beatty Warren)
The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we should have rituals, we should do something about getting them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us. So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a middle-class weapon to keep the children good. (Beatty Warren)
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. (Beatty Warren)
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. (Beatty Warren)
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Beatty Warren)
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. (Beatty Warren)
An actor is only merchandise. (Beatty Warren)
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. (Beatty Warren)
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. (Beatty Warren)
I am the Fred Astaire of karate. (Beatty Warren)
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. (Beatty Warren)
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. (Beatty Warren)
I find myself fascinating. (Beatty Warren)
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. (Beatty Warren)
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. (Beatty Warren)
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. (Beatty Warren)
The best actors do not let the wheels show. (Beatty Warren)
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. (Beatty Warren)
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