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| Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. | | Gail Godwin | |
| Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord | | Adolf Hitler | |
| I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. | | Bette Davis | |
| I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act. | | Elvis Presley | |
| I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. | | Bette Davis | |
| I love acting. It is so much more real than life. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. | | Bette Midler | |
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| If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion | | Samuel Johnson | |
| In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters | | Seneca | |
| Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. | | Thornton Wilder | |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. | | Aristotle | |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. | | Aristotle | |
| My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. | | Will Smith | |
