Acting proverbs

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◆ I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

- Lauren Oliver99

◆ All the world's a stage.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

- Meryl Streep99

◆ I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

- Jennifer Donnelly99

◆ There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

- Robert Downey Jr.99

◆ The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

- Benedict Cumberbatch99

◆ When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

- Lauren Bacall99

◆ Death is just the last scene of the last act.

- Joyce Carol Oates99

◆ I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

- Shelley Winters99

◆ Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

- E.A. Bucchianeri99

◆ All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

- Anna Deavere Smith98

◆ Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

- Ewan McGregor98

◆ There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

- Hal Holbrook98