The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.
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Acting is happy agony.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi get me a Herschel Bernardi type get me a young Herschel Bernardi and who is Herschel Bernardi?
When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn.
From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds which is what at heart - bless 'em - they are.
Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.