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Category Archives: Actors
Peggy Cummins in “Gun Crazy”
Being looked at like that can make your blood run cold. Continue reading
Quotes on acting 12: Minnie Maddern Fiske
“Genius is the great unknown quantity. Technique supplies a constant for the problem. Fluency, flexibility, technique, precision, virtuosity, science – call it what you will. Why call it anything? Watch Pavlova dance, and there you have it. She knows her … Continue reading Continue reading
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Quotes on acting 11: Pauline Kael on Marlon Brando
“We all know that movie actors often merge with their roles in a way that stage actors don’t, quite, but Brando did it even on the stage. I was in New York when he played his famous small role in … Continue reading
Quotes on acting 10: Sidney Lumet on Ingrid Bergman
“In Murder on the Orient Express, I wanted Ingrid Bergman to play the Russian Princess Dragomiroff. She wanted to play the retarded Swedish maid. I wanted Ingrid Bergman. I let her play the maid. She won an Academy Award. I … Continue reading
Quotes on acting 9: George Bernard Shaw on Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I love this because it shows Beerbohm’s inability to be in anything BUT the moment. Rather amusing. I love descriptions of performances that we, in the modern age, actually cannot see. They only existed on the stage, in the performance … Continue reading Continue reading
Quotes on acting 8: Stella Adler on playing Ibsen
You have to learn the size of Ibsen. The size of the conflict. The size of the land and how it stuck out into the sea. The size of the darkness. The snowfalls and the sparkling glaciers. The mountains. Surrounded … Continue reading
Quotes on acting 7: Bette Davis
“I was thought to be ‘stuck up’. I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.” — Bette Davis Continue reading
Quotes on acting 6: Sidney Lumet
“[During the rehearsal period] I’m finding out things about the actors. What stimulates them, what triggers their emotions? What annoys them? How’s their concentration? Do they have a technique? What method of acting do they use? The ‘Method’ made famous … Continue reading Continue reading
Quotes on acting 4: Laurette Taylor
“The student of acting sits before her performance [as Amanda Wingfield in Glass Menagerie] and marvels at the series of constant surprises with which she rewards him. Her phrasing and accent of a line is so often unexpected, her movement … Continue reading Continue reading