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Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

Above all, ignore the audience Picture Quote #1

... An actor is exactly as big as his imagination Picture Quote #1

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded Picture Quote #1

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of... advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever Picture Quote #1

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor....The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on Picture Quote #1

It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical Picture Quote #1

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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater Picture Quote #1

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism Picture Quote #1

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor’s mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium Picture Quote #1

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things Picture Quote #1

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will Picture Quote #1

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Above all, ignore the audience (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) ... An actor is exactly as big as his imagination (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) Among the most disheartening and dangerous of... advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor....The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor’s mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes) Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will (Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes)