• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 26 reads

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• I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 13 reads

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• I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 0 reads

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• I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 185 reads

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• In government, one actress is enough.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 107 reads

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• It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 190 reads

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• Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 123 reads

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• Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 118 reads

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• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 180 reads

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• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

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  Richard Bach

  WriterAmerican1936 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 160 reads

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 22 reads

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• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 2 reads

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• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 111 reads

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 172 reads

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actor

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 163 reads

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• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 56 reads

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• The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 162 reads

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• The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 120 reads

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 4 reads

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• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 159 reads

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• The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 172 reads

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 173 reads

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• To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 196 reads

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 140 reads

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• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 37 reads

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• When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 104 reads

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 50 reads

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• 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.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 6 reads

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• With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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