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Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.
Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!
One can use standard principles and textbooks in educating people for law, medicine, architecture, chemistry or almost any other profession - but not for the theater. For, in most professions, every practitioner uses the same tools and techniques, while the actor's chief instrument is himself. And since no two persons are alike, no universal rule is applicable to any two actors in exactly the same way.
You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.
To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.
With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.
The text is your greatest enemy.
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.
If you have the emotion, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it don't bother; just say your lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
That which hinders your task is your task.
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.
Acting is fun ... don't let that get around!
Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.
Every little moment has a meaning all its own.
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.
Find in yourself those human things which are universal.
