Theatre Acting Quotes:

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

- Kate Bosworth

topic: Theatre, Acting, Scare, Theatre Acting

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

- Stella Adler

topic: Spiritual, Theatre, Rays, Acting Teachers, Theatre Acting

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Acting, Needs, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Real, Acting, Best Acting, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Break Up, Tradition, Breaking Promises, Theatre Acting

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

- Stella Adler

topic: Mean, People, Greek, Best Acting, Truth About Life

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Art, Theatre, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

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.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Birthday, Time, Player, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Truth, Fake, Made, Secret Life, Being Truthful

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

- Kate Reid

topic: Emotional, Acting, Able, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Actors, Film Actors, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting, Theatre Actors

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

- Tim Robbins

topic: Acting, Actors, Boring, Theatre Actors, Theatre Acting

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

- Alec Guinness

topic: Two, Heaven, Acting, Theatre Acting, Heaven Or Hell

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.

- Clive Swift

topic: Sports, Moving, Player, Stage Acting, Theatre Acting

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

- Rosalind Russell

source: "Life is a Banquet". Book by Rosalind Russell, 1977.

topic: Motivational, Theatre, Acting, Theatre Acting

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [584]

topic: Acting, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Polonius, Theatre Acting

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Funny, Humorous, Acting, Best Acting, Theatre Actors

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Writing, Crafts, Suits, Words And Actions, Creativity And Writing

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Simple, Law, Actors, Theatre Acting

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Acting, Actors, Remember, Film Actors, Acting From Actors

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Feelings, Acting, Actors, Creativeness, Theatre Acting

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

- Meryl Streep

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Essence, Best Acting, Theatre Acting

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.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Funny, Success, Art, Minerva, Best Acting

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Acting, Different, Finding Myself, Best Acting, Child Actors

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Fake People, Truth, Secret Life, Just Live Your Life

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Theatre, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

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

topic: Artist, Feelings, Acting, Stage Acting, Stage Actors

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

- Nicolas Roeg

source: "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

topic: Differences, Theatre, Acting, Theatre 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.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Practice, Acting, Stage Actors, Stage Acting, Acting From Actors

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Passion, Player, Air, Stage Actors, Whirlwind

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: People, Personality, Acting, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Acting, Pay, Benefits, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door.

- Constantin Stanislavski

source: Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.215, A&C Black

topic: Life, Art, Doors, Squabbles, Theatre Acting

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Theatre, Better Person, Should, Theatre Acting

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

topic: Special, Acting, Suits, Observance, Theatre Acting

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

- Stella Adler

topic: Heart, Mean, Creating, Theatre Acting

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

- John Boyega

topic: Theatre, Acting, Lessons, Film Acting, Theatre Acting

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Drama, School, Years, Theatre Acting