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“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”

Ifs Speak Lines Player Stage Praying Speech Mouths Towns Tongue Spokes I Pray Whirlwind Theatre Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.”

Littles Sometimes Reality Eye Universe Stage Mines Mouths Circles Visible Coming Out Projectors

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.”

Lost Lines Stage Goes On Mouths Decided Theater Bounds Southern Southerner

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.”

Kind Art Form Actors Individual Powerful Stage One Day Mouths Theater Revealing Transparent Good Actors

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.”

Ifs Thinking World Done Enough Young Our Lives Trouble Stage Particular Drama Mouths Spread My Time Foam Rant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.”

Men Mind Would Be Young Night Actors Stage Mouths Philosopher Superiors Destroyed Young Man Nonsense Every Night Supposing Mental Power Gaudy Superior Intelligence

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.”

Kids Used Stage Mouths Balls Breaths Broke Noses Cricket

Author:Damian Lewis

“The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.”

Years Firsts Play Names Imagine Stage Huge Mouths Imagine That Terrified Philadelphia Gary

Author:John Mahoney

“I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.”

Trying Believe I Can Helping Eye Able Turns Difficult Behinds Brain Stage Self Esteem Pure Mouths Nervous Grandma My Grandma

Author:Adele

“I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.”

Knows Felt Enjoy Walks Millions Stage Singing Mouths Miles Opening Coming Out 80s Miles Away Burnt Out

Author:George Strait

“Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'”

Giving Said Shows Stage Mouths Sorry I'm Sorry

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You didn’t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,” he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He spoke with a heavy Irish accent. “I didn’t tell her how hard you are on them either,” Patch returned, his mouth at the relaxed stage just before a grin.”

Said Hard Hands Eye Stage Mouths Heavy Spokes Accents Relaxed Patches Irish Accent

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale