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“This many-headed monster.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: Roman Actor (act III, sc. 4)
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“This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: Roman Actor (act III, sc. 4)
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“A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Epistle to Miss Blount--With the Works of Voiture (l. 22)
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“There still remains to mortify a wit
The many-headed monster of the pit.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Horace (ep. I, bk. II, l. 30)
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“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 1)
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“Your scene precariously subsists too long,
On French translation and Italian song.
Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;
Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Addison's Cato (l. 42)
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“Tom Goodwin was an actor-man,
Old Drury's pride and boast,
In all the light and spritely parts,
Especially the ghost.”
J.G. Saxe Quotes Source: The Ghost Player
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“The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of
Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: The Talisman (prologue), part of the Tales of the Crusaders
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“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good
play needs no epilogue.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at epilogue)
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“Like a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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“The best actors do not let the wheels show.”
Henry Fonda Quotes |
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“Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.”
Arthur Gingold Quotes |
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“You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something.”
Kenneth Haigh Quotes |
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“I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.”
Lilli Palmer Quotes |
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“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
Kate Reid Quotes |
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“A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.”
Jean Anouilh Quotes |
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“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”
Paul Newman Quotes |
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“Acting is happy agony.”
Alec Guinness Quotes |
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“The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behind
the curtain to congratulate you on your performance
Sai Baba
http://www.vahini.org/downloads.”
Sai Baba Quotes |
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“The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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