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Mr. Bazzard’s father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son’s having written a play.
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
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My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.
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My whole life has revolved around acting so far!
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Never get caught acting.
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No, I do my own acting.
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Notice? Notice? I was acting!
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Notwithstanding all that has advanced so very ingeniously upon plays and players, their profession is, like that of a painter, one of the imitative arts, whose means are pleasure, and whose end is virtue.
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Now I enjoy acting.
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O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak it profanely), that neither having th’ accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ‘Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.
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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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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves They pretend they are someone else.
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People say I’m cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future’s going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
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Players, sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.–But, sir, you will allow, that some players are better than others?–Yes, sir; as some dogs dance better than others.
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Prologues like compliments are loss of time; ‘Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
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Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse.
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master, has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing — all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art — at the door.
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See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
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