Self-denial is the
shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
-- Abstinence
Art is not to be
taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens
to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
-- Academia
Man is least
himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he
will tell you the truth.
-- Acting And Actors
The mere
mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is
to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic
college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who
makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their
right mode of expression.
-- Acting And Actors
While we
look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of
the actor to give realism to romance.
-- Acting And
Actors
I love
acting. It is so much more real than life.
-- Acting And
Actors
No,
Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of
those who know not how to dream.
-- Action
Action is
the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
-- Action
Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit
