“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.” ThinkingGivingMeanCharacterActorsBehindsAttentionCreatingStandingOvercomingTerrorConvincedPhrasesMaskStanding There Author:Stephen Dillane
“As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.” TryingActorsMask Author:Russell Hornsby
“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.” ShouldHumansStillsTodayBeautifulFacesValuesActorsFoundLiteratureSpeakChildhoodObjectsComplexesDenyTheatreDramaticMaskLuminousExpressiveHuman FacesSymmetricalBeautiful Objects Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?” LongFacesActorsHabitMaskOld Time Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.” WellsChildrenDifferentMotherActorsFatherPoorRichTeacherHundredHumbleCooksNosesGentleMaskGrandmotherGrandfatherDisguiseNaiveCunningRich And PoorMaidsHaughtyVengefulLenient Author:Janusz Korczak
“The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.” WantArtistActorsInterestingMaskHitchcockProsthetics Author:Toby Jones