Acting - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65267<![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64588<![CDATA[If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64256<![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566<![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63557<![CDATA[This many-headed monster. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/429<![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430<![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431<![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432<![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/433<![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/434<![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/435<![CDATA[The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/436<![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/437<![CDATA[Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/438<![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439<![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/440<![CDATA[You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/441<![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442<![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/443<![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/444<![CDATA[Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/445<![CDATA[Acting is happy agony. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/446<![CDATA[The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behind the curtain to congratulate you on your performance Sai Baba http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/447<![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/448<![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/405<![CDATA[My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/406<![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/407<![CDATA[My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/408<![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/409<![CDATA[I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/410<![CDATA[Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/411<![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412<![CDATA[My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/413<![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414<![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time; Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415<![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/416<![CDATA[But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/417<![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/418<![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419<![CDATA[Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/421<![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/422<![CDATA[On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/423<![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424<![CDATA[It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy A little private spouting; ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/425<![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/426<![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/427<![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/428<![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks. The founder's you: the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/420