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Quotes about acting and actors
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You are not in business to be popular. (Castellaneta Dan)
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. (Castellaneta Dan)
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. (Castellaneta Dan)
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Castellaneta Dan)
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. (Castellaneta Dan)
An actor is only merchandise. (Castellaneta Dan)
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. (Castellaneta Dan)
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. (Castellaneta Dan)
I am the Fred Astaire of karate. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. (Castellaneta Dan)
I find myself fascinating. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. (Castellaneta Dan)
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. (Castellaneta Dan)
The best actors do not let the wheels show. (Castellaneta Dan)
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. (Castellaneta Dan)
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