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Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.

Sir Noël Coward, English playwright (1899–1973)

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Television has brought back murder into the home — where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (1899–1980)

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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.

Teatr i iskusstvo (1904)

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

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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)

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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)

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

The Lonely Life (1962)

Bette Davis, American actress (1908–1989)

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

Jane Fonda, American actress (1937–)

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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–)

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

Josephine Hull, American actress (1877–1957)

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

Time (1978)

Laurence Olivier, English actor (1907–1989)

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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)

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Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly.

Life Is a Banquet (1977)

Rosalind Russell, American actress (1907–1976)

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Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud, English actor (1904–2000)

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (1902–1983)