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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer (1860–1904)



The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Shadows of the Gods (1958)

Arthur Miller, American playwright (1915–2005)



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

My Autobiography (1964)

Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor, director and composer (1889–1977)



Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

The Lonely Life (1962)

Bette Davis, American actress (1908–1989)



You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda, American actress (1937–)



Acting should be like punk in the best way. It should be a full-on expression of self – only without the broken bottles.

Uncut (2000)

John Cusack, American actor (1966–)



Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you’re a king.

Josephine Hull, American actress (1877–1957)



Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Time (1978)

Laurence Olivier, English actor (1907–1989)



A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.

A Life on Film (1967)

Mary Astor, American actress (1906–1987)



Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly.

Life Is a Banquet (1977)

Rosalind Russell, American actress (1907–1976)



Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud, English actor (1904–2000)



The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (1902–1983)

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)



Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Themes and Variations (1950)

Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)


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