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- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
- I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
- We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
- Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
- The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
- The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
- A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
- The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
