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“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”
Johnny Depp Quotes |
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“My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.”
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“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
James Dean Quotes |
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“My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.”
Steve Buscemi Quotes |
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“I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.”
Christina Aguilera Quotes |
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“I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts tough but is still sexy.”
Christina Aguilera Quotes |
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“Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck!”
Christina Aguilera Quotes |
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“Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”
Alan Rickman Quotes |
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“My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'”
Arsenio Hall Quotes |
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“My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front
and watch me.”
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“My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front
and watch me.”
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“Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime.
In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;
Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best,
And turn'd some very serious things to jest.
Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers,
Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers;
"Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute!
Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote.
We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes
Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens,
When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die,"
And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Hints from Horace (l. 329)
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“As good as a play.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Hints from Horace (l. 329)
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“But as for all the rest,
There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test.
The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth,
In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.”
Edmund Vance Cooke Quotes Source: The Other One was Booth
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“I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my
own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union
and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God
conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was
Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it
with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal
Drama.”
Edmund Vance Cooke Quotes Source: The Other One was Booth
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“See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run;
and yet they steal my thunder.”
John Dennis Quotes Source: Biographia Britiannica (vol. V, p. 103)
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“Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks;
Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.
The founder's you: the table is the place:
The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.
Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,
Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.
Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.
Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?
Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true
Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.
Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.
Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:
Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,
Are water-gruel without salt or taste.”
George Farquhar Quotes Source: The Inconstant; or, The Way to Win Him (prologue)
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“Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse,
As undertakers walk before the hearse.”
David Garrick Quotes Source: Apprentice (prologue)
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“Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.”
David Garrick Quotes Source: Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia
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“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting
'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 101)
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“Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor,
prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all
in one, and audience into the bargain.”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes Source: Guesses at Truth
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“It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy,
It's very hard one can't enjoy
A little private spouting;
But sure as Lear or Hamlet lives,
Up comes our master, Bounce! and gives
The tragic Muse a routing.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: The Stage-Struck Hero
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“And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop
To the low mimic follies of a farce,
As a grave matron would to dance with girls.”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Of the Art of Poetry
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“The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give.
For we that live to please, must please to live.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: a prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick on opening Drury Lane Theatre
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“Who teach the mind its proper face to scan,
And hold the faithful mirror up to man.”
Robert Lloyd Quotes Source: The Actor (l. 265)
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