William Shakespeare Acting Quotations

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

The play's the thing.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.