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The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.
— Stella Adler
I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.
— Michelle Dockery
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
— Alan Rickman
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
— Kelsey Chow
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
— Christopher Eccleston
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.
— Steve Buscemi
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
— Rhys Ifans
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.
— Brooke Elliott
YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.
— Tony Kushner
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
— Uta Hagen
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
— Bertie Carvel
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
— Sarah Snook
Acting is in everything but the words.
— Stella Adler
I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
— Christina Hendricks
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.
— Stella Adler
Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.
— Konstantin Stanislavski
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
— Katharine Hepburn
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
— Tony Randall
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
— Skylar Astin
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
— Stella Adler
All the world's a stage.
— William Shakespeare
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
— Len Cariou
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
— Stella Adler
Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
— John Garfield
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
— Michael Shurtleff
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.
— Leo Tolstoy
Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.
— Anthony Hopkins
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
— Stella Adler
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
— Jim Henson
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
— Ewan McGregor
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
— Stella Adler
I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
— James Denton
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
— Arthur Lowe
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
— Kabir Bedi
I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
— Kate Bosworth