Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
quote by Leo Rosten
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.
quote by Sara Gilbert
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
quote by John Sayles
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
When The Set Has Changed
Both of us are too 'stage' ready.
We are those, 'Light, camera and action' folks.
Easily provoked...
When in meditation.
Or whatever that is called,
After someone is seen nodding to a sleep...
From boredom.
Both of us are too 'stage' ready.
Drama bent...
And prepared to chew up the scenery.
At a moment's notice.
However...
What is there to prove...
When the set has changed.
And so has the crew!
And the seats of the audience have been removed...
Without a single question asked.
To leave the ones rehashing the past...
Astonished they no longer mesmerize!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.
quote by Rebecca De Mornay
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
There are many roads to good acting. I've been asked repeatedly what the "key" to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.
quote by Maureen Stapleton
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
quote by Vincent D'Onofrio
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
Method acting is anything that gets you involved personally in the part, so that you can communicate in human terms with an audience. Despite all the obstacles, the American actor has changed the acting world.
quote by Rod Steiger
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
quote by Ivor Novello
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
quote by Nicolas Roeg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.
quote by Jason Dohring
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Medusa
Finally
I have seen the lights in your eyes
And now
I am gloryfing my tragic destiny
Dreams can be wholesome for me
Life is a tormented dream for me
Mesmerize me, enchant me
Mesmerize with your eyes, now
Enchant me, hypnotize me
Enchant me, mesmerize me
Enchant me, hypnotize me
I found the lies in your words
And now
I am gloryfing my tragic destiny
Dreams can be hard and mean
I still wonder if you are aware of this
Dreams can be hard and mean
Life is a tormented time, now
Medusa medusa
Medusa
Enchant me, mesmerize me
Enchant me, mesmerize me
Enchant me, hypnotize me
Enchant me, mesmorize me
song performed by by Xymox
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
quote by George Clooney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Sonnet: Acting These Days
The way they act is worst I’ve seen;
In acting’s name, they show perverted sex;
There is no censorship of silver screen;
The kind of love and kissing can all vex.
Violence and sex are shown to maximum;
They poison young hearts, minds and souls to sin;
What filthy songs and dance make it wholesome!
And takes the audience to hellish bin.
What vices more, they need to exhibit?
The eyes and ears revel in devilish glee;
The actors, actresses don’t inhibit;
Nothing is wrong in life they think, maybe.
O God, where is the human modesty?
For Money’s sake, they buy this malady!
poem by John Celes
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
It was the time of innocence
When he could easily play the fool
Without being punished
Meantime the stages have fallen apart
Meantime the actors have forgotten texts
Deeply written within all acts
Of five reasons made to always start-begin
At every opening to make an end
Close the builds
Leaf through empty seats
A numberless audience clapping to the silence
The rhythm being set
Proportions outreach
Harmony
Begging back to time
Tickets for a precious entrance
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
quote by Francesca Annis
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
quote by Christian Bale
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
quote by Alan Bates
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
quote by Dennis Farina
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
quote by Estelle Parsons
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
quote by James Caan
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian