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The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.
The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.
A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
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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.
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my
own just above the others; because in read more
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.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
Needle in a bottle of hay.
Needle in a bottle of hay.
With tooth and nail.
With tooth and nail.