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• If you give audiences a chance they’ll do half your acting for you.

  Katharine Hepburn

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• The whole motivation for any performer is ‘Look at me, Ma.’

  Lenny Bruce

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

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• Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

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• You need three things in the theatre – the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.

  Kenneth Haigh

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• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

  Gore Vidal

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Henry Fonda

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• The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Bette Davis

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• A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

  Jack Carson

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

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• The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you’ve got to have the guts to be hated.

  Bene Davis

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• When the audience knows you know better, it’s satire, but when they think you can’t do any better, it’s corn.

  Spike Jones

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• With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

  George Burns

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• Acting is happy agony.

  Sir Alec Guinness

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• The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias.

  William T. Wiley

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• The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

  Thornton Wilder

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• An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

  Edwin Booth

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• Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

  George Jean Nathan

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• When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

  Stephen Leacock

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• You can’t automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

  William T. Wiley

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