*REQUIRED TO WRITE THREE COMPLETE SENTENCES FOR EACH QUOTE*
1. "Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
Sanford Meisner
2. "To be an actor you have to be a child."
Paul Newman
3. "Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."
Constantin Stanislavski
4. "The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
Stella Adler
5. "The ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
Sanford Meisner
6. "Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves."
Augusto Boal
7. "Movies will make you famous, television will make you rich but theatre will make you good."
Terrence Mann
8. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
9. "I am the me I choose to be."
Sidney Poitier
10. "Dreams without goals, remain dreams."
Denzel Washington
11. "With theatre, you have to be ready for anything."
Willem Dafoe
12. "We must overcome the notion that we must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
Uta Hagen
13. "What makes you weird or different, that's your strength."
Meryl Streep
14. "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
Cicely Tyson
15. "Either the world will define you or you will define yourself."
Viola Davis
16. "Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
Bette Davis
17. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
18. "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."
P. T. Barnum
19. "Challenge yourself. It's the only path which leads to growth."
Morgan Freeman
20. "The actor becomes an emotional athlete."
Al Pacino
21. "A lot of acting is paying attention."
Robert Redford
22. "All our dreams can come true. If we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney
23. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
Maya Angelou
24. "Everyone you admire was once a beginner."
Jack Butcher
25. "The curtain still goes up on an actor's worst day."
Stewart Stafford
26. "If you are just safe in the choices you make, you don't grow."
Heath Ledger
27. "The path to moments of greatness in your life will be paved, in part with your spectacular failures."
Leslie Odom Jr.
28. "Never give up on your dream just because of the time it will take to accompolish it."
Earl Nightingale
29. "Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief."
August Wilson
30. "An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself."
Harvey Cocks
31. "The audience is the real teacher and it's the audience that has taught me all I know."
Oliver Reed
32. "Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are in the driver's seat."
Greta Scaachi
33. "The theatre is a social x-ray of its time."
Stella Adler
34. "Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life."
Lin-Manuel Miranda
35. "All performers bring to there role something more, something different than what the author put on the paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Stephen Sondheim
36. "There's power in looking silly and not caring."
Amy Poehler
37. "Great actors share the parts of themselves that most people keep hidden."
Marcus Geduld
38. "When an actor plays a scene exactly the way the director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
James Dean
39. "The only failure is not to try."
George Clooney
40. "Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."
Harvey Fierstein
41. "Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone."
Simon McBurney
42. "Actors think more with their hearts than their heads."
William Esper
43. "Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality."
Eugene Ionesco
44. "Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor."
Viola Davis
45. "Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
Victor Garber
46. "Theatre and storytelling has the power to change lives."
Liesl Tommy
47. "Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to."
Willem Dafoe
48. "We must do theatre to find out who we are and discover who we could become."
Augusto Boal
49. "Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are."
Viola Davis
50. "Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still have a big impact."
Neil Patrick Harris
51. "You are only as good as the chances you take."
Al Pacino
52. "We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything."
Viola Spolin
53. "Acting requires faith. You must believe that you are the person you're playing and that what is happening is happening to you."
Ivanna Chubbuck
54. "The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be."
Constantin Stanislavski
55. "The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
Sir laurence Olivier
56. "Theatre is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television."
Patti LuPone
57. "If you can accept your differentness and learn to encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful."
Bette Midler
58. "If you're going to do a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way."
Cynthia Erivo
59. "When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there."
Zig Ziglar
60. "Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art."
Constantin Stanislavski
61. "It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."
Garry Marshall
62. "Doubt is the enemy of creativeness."
Constantin Stanislavski
63. "I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."
Lucille Ball
64. "Theatre is a sharp reflection of society."
Yasmina Reza
65. "As performers we're insecure. That's why we get up on stage."
Audra McDonald
66. "Success is like failure, it's how you perceive it. It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it."
Stephen Sondheim
67. "Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order to chaos."
Stephen Sondheim
68. "We know what we are, but we know not what we will be."
William Shakespeare
69. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
70. "The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating."
Viola Spolin
71. "Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
Ellen DeGeneres
72. "Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think".
Les Brown
73. "No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
Martin Luther King Jr.
74. “As actors, you become an expert at starting over. Every single role brings with it an ignorance and an insecurity, and so you have to approach it with the same curiosity and humility".
Lupita Nyong'o
75. "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes invisible visible."
Marcel Marceau
76. "No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps."
Uta Hagen
77. "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
Constantin Stanislavski
78. " As an actor you become a lightning rod between the person who wrote the play and the audience."
Christopher Walken
79. "You need three things in the theatre-the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something."
Kenneth Haigh
80. "The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital."
Audra McDonald
81. "Don't be afraid to fail. It's not the end of the world, and in many ways, it's the first step toward learning something and getting better at it."
Jon Hamm
82. "Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."
Gary Oldman
83. "If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, "OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something."
Liam Neesom
84. "You can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."
Jim Carrey
85. " You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing."
Stella Adler
86. "With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go."
Sanford Meisner
87. "One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself."
Uta Hagen
88. "All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
Viola Davis
89. "Performing is about empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion, so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other."
Willem Dafoe
90. "The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it."
Eartha Kitt
91. "Fear nothing. Do what you want to do but be educated and intelligent and confident about it."
Idris Elba
92. "Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be."
Paul Robeson
93. "To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."
Cicely Tyson
94. "The reason I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together."
Condola Rashad
95. "Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can."
Will Smith
96. "You are extraordinary in every way. Don't ever let anyone ever tell you otherwise."
Leslie Odom Jr.
97. "An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
James Dean
98. "What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not. A lot of the time it's what makes you great."
Emma Stone
99. “ Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”
Chadwick Boseman
100. "Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances."
Victor Hugo
101. "There's nothing like preparation to make you fearless."
Leslie Odom Jr.
102. "Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent".
Lee Strasberg
103. "Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine".
James Earl Jones
1. "Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
Sanford Meisner
2. "To be an actor you have to be a child."
Paul Newman
3. "Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."
Constantin Stanislavski
4. "The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
Stella Adler
5. "The ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
Sanford Meisner
6. "Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves."
Augusto Boal
7. "Movies will make you famous, television will make you rich but theatre will make you good."
Terrence Mann
8. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
9. "I am the me I choose to be."
Sidney Poitier
10. "Dreams without goals, remain dreams."
Denzel Washington
11. "With theatre, you have to be ready for anything."
Willem Dafoe
12. "We must overcome the notion that we must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
Uta Hagen
13. "What makes you weird or different, that's your strength."
Meryl Streep
14. "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
Cicely Tyson
15. "Either the world will define you or you will define yourself."
Viola Davis
16. "Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
Bette Davis
17. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
18. "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."
P. T. Barnum
19. "Challenge yourself. It's the only path which leads to growth."
Morgan Freeman
20. "The actor becomes an emotional athlete."
Al Pacino
21. "A lot of acting is paying attention."
Robert Redford
22. "All our dreams can come true. If we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney
23. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
Maya Angelou
24. "Everyone you admire was once a beginner."
Jack Butcher
25. "The curtain still goes up on an actor's worst day."
Stewart Stafford
26. "If you are just safe in the choices you make, you don't grow."
Heath Ledger
27. "The path to moments of greatness in your life will be paved, in part with your spectacular failures."
Leslie Odom Jr.
28. "Never give up on your dream just because of the time it will take to accompolish it."
Earl Nightingale
29. "Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief."
August Wilson
30. "An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself."
Harvey Cocks
31. "The audience is the real teacher and it's the audience that has taught me all I know."
Oliver Reed
32. "Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are in the driver's seat."
Greta Scaachi
33. "The theatre is a social x-ray of its time."
Stella Adler
34. "Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life."
Lin-Manuel Miranda
35. "All performers bring to there role something more, something different than what the author put on the paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Stephen Sondheim
36. "There's power in looking silly and not caring."
Amy Poehler
37. "Great actors share the parts of themselves that most people keep hidden."
Marcus Geduld
38. "When an actor plays a scene exactly the way the director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
James Dean
39. "The only failure is not to try."
George Clooney
40. "Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."
Harvey Fierstein
41. "Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone."
Simon McBurney
42. "Actors think more with their hearts than their heads."
William Esper
43. "Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality."
Eugene Ionesco
44. "Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor."
Viola Davis
45. "Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."
Victor Garber
46. "Theatre and storytelling has the power to change lives."
Liesl Tommy
47. "Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to."
Willem Dafoe
48. "We must do theatre to find out who we are and discover who we could become."
Augusto Boal
49. "Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are."
Viola Davis
50. "Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still have a big impact."
Neil Patrick Harris
51. "You are only as good as the chances you take."
Al Pacino
52. "We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything."
Viola Spolin
53. "Acting requires faith. You must believe that you are the person you're playing and that what is happening is happening to you."
Ivanna Chubbuck
54. "The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be."
Constantin Stanislavski
55. "The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
Sir laurence Olivier
56. "Theatre is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television."
Patti LuPone
57. "If you can accept your differentness and learn to encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful."
Bette Midler
58. "If you're going to do a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way."
Cynthia Erivo
59. "When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there."
Zig Ziglar
60. "Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art."
Constantin Stanislavski
61. "It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."
Garry Marshall
62. "Doubt is the enemy of creativeness."
Constantin Stanislavski
63. "I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."
Lucille Ball
64. "Theatre is a sharp reflection of society."
Yasmina Reza
65. "As performers we're insecure. That's why we get up on stage."
Audra McDonald
66. "Success is like failure, it's how you perceive it. It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it."
Stephen Sondheim
67. "Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order to chaos."
Stephen Sondheim
68. "We know what we are, but we know not what we will be."
William Shakespeare
69. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
70. "The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating."
Viola Spolin
71. "Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
Ellen DeGeneres
72. "Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think".
Les Brown
73. "No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
Martin Luther King Jr.
74. “As actors, you become an expert at starting over. Every single role brings with it an ignorance and an insecurity, and so you have to approach it with the same curiosity and humility".
Lupita Nyong'o
75. "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes invisible visible."
Marcel Marceau
76. "No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps."
Uta Hagen
77. "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
Constantin Stanislavski
78. " As an actor you become a lightning rod between the person who wrote the play and the audience."
Christopher Walken
79. "You need three things in the theatre-the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something."
Kenneth Haigh
80. "The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital."
Audra McDonald
81. "Don't be afraid to fail. It's not the end of the world, and in many ways, it's the first step toward learning something and getting better at it."
Jon Hamm
82. "Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."
Gary Oldman
83. "If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, "OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something."
Liam Neesom
84. "You can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."
Jim Carrey
85. " You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing."
Stella Adler
86. "With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go."
Sanford Meisner
87. "One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself."
Uta Hagen
88. "All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
Viola Davis
89. "Performing is about empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion, so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other."
Willem Dafoe
90. "The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it."
Eartha Kitt
91. "Fear nothing. Do what you want to do but be educated and intelligent and confident about it."
Idris Elba
92. "Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be."
Paul Robeson
93. "To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."
Cicely Tyson
94. "The reason I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together."
Condola Rashad
95. "Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can."
Will Smith
96. "You are extraordinary in every way. Don't ever let anyone ever tell you otherwise."
Leslie Odom Jr.
97. "An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
James Dean
98. "What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not. A lot of the time it's what makes you great."
Emma Stone
99. “ Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.”
Chadwick Boseman
100. "Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances."
Victor Hugo
101. "There's nothing like preparation to make you fearless."
Leslie Odom Jr.
102. "Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent".
Lee Strasberg
103. "Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine".
James Earl Jones