Acting to me was, and is, straightforward: you see the words on the page; memorise them; then say them out loud.
“The grey hair, which has spoken of old age at once to writers and doctors, means to a painter not just grey hair, but a certain grey – perhaps a grey with silver lights and warm shadows, perhaps an opaque cold grey, but a grey as different from other greys as one chord in music is different from others.”
― Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook
― Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook
“The second act, indeed, might have been used to good advantage to start the play off with, and all the words that preceded it could have been saved for future use. Thriftily managed, they would have served the author for the next three years.”
― Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923
― Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923
“No, I shall not weary you with a long account of my childhood, and all that sort of thing. When I read a story, I always skip the pages devoted to a description of the juvenile days of the hero or heroine. They are generally insufferably uninteresting, or interesting only to the writer, and I can find no excuse for selfishness, with such a weapon as a pen in one’s hand.”
― A Marriage Below Zero: America's First Gay Novel
― A Marriage Below Zero: America's First Gay Novel
“The machines had been in control of the Solar System for so long that there were whole elements of robot society who couldn’t believe humans had ever been a dominant species. The nearest thing the Earth had to an official record of the time before the toasters had vomited their last pop tarts was the Internet. But that, they argued, was hardly a reliable source. Even if it weren’t treason to access it in the first place, who could trust a repository of linked information that rewrote itself, and set so much store by talking cats?”
― Battlestar Suburbia
― Battlestar Suburbia
“The real heroine, if it be found possible to arrange her drapery for her becomingly, and to put that part which she enacted into properly heroic words, shall stalk in among us at some considerably later period of the narrative, when the writer shall have accustomed himself to the flow of words, and have worked himself up to a state of mind fit for the reception of noble acting and noble speaking.”
― The Eustace Diamonds
― The Eustace Diamonds
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