I have observed that in comedy the best actor plays the part of the droll while some scrub rogue is made the hero or fine gentleman. So in this farce of life wise men pass their time in mirth whilst fools only are serious.
You have to believe in yourself thats the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.
When you perform … you are out of yourselflarger and more potent more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.
What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one.
I have observed that in comedy the best actor plays the part of the droll while some scrub rogue is made the hero or fine gentleman. So in this farce of life wise men pass their time in mirth whilst fools only are serious.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
The worlds a theatre the earth a stage Which God and nature do with actors fill.
Act well at the moment And you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part there all the honor lies.
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead of us.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
EXPERIENCE n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
If there?s anything unsettling to the stomach it?s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
You have to believe in yourself thats the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.
When you perform … you are out of yourselflarger and more potent more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
On the stage he was natural simple affecting; T was only that when he was off he was acting.
The world s a theatre the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Sir I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.
Some of the greatest love affairs Ive known have involved one actor–unassisted.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one.
We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.
Acting is just a way of making a living the family is life.
Talk low talk slow and dont say too much.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.