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.
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A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.
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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.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.
Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.
A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
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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.
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
