Best Stage Acting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.”

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Author:Fred Melamed

“There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.”

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Author:Denis Lavant

“Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!”

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Author:Erland Josephson

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.”

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Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.”

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Author:Tommy Wiseau

“I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.”

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Author:Chris Tucker

“Full of wise saws and modern instances.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.”

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Author:Ralph Strangis

“People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.”

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Author:Brian Blessed

“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.”

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Author:Fred Melamed

“I feel like my home is stage acting.”

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Author:Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.”

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Author:Ingrid Bergman

“When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.”

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Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”

“Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.”

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Author:Clive Swift

“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.”

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Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.”

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Author:Eli Wallach

“I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.”

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Author:Callan McAuliffe

“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“The foundation for film acting is stage acting.”

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Author:James Lipton

“A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.”

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Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“One man in his time plays many parts.”

“I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.”

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Author:Miranda Richardson

“Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.”

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Author:Charles Durning

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