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Acting is happy agony. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. (Bull Deborah)
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. (Bull Deborah)
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. (Bull Deborah)
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
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. (Bull Deborah)
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? (Bull Deborah)
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. (Bull Deborah)
Actors die so loud. (Bull Deborah)
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. (Bull Deborah)
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