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Acting is happy agony. (Castellaneta Dan)
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. (Castellaneta Dan)
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. (Castellaneta Dan)
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. (Castellaneta Dan)
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. (Castellaneta Dan)
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors. (Castellaneta Dan)
The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. (Castellaneta Dan)
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. (Castellaneta Dan)
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. (Castellaneta Dan)
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. (Castellaneta Dan)
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. (Castellaneta Dan)
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. (Castellaneta Dan)
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. (Castellaneta Dan)
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. (Castellaneta Dan)
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. (Castellaneta Dan)
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb. (Castellaneta Dan)
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving. (Castellaneta Dan)
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday? (Castellaneta Dan)
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. (Castellaneta Dan)
Actors die so loud. (Castellaneta Dan)
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. (Castellaneta Dan)
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