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The actors today really need the whip hand. Theyre so lazy. They h

The actors today really need the whip hand. Theyre so lazy. They havent got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. – W. H. Auden

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You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm. – Sarah Bernhardt

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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – Bertolt Brecht

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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It is not whether you really cry. Its whether the audience thinks you are crying. – Ingrid Bergman

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