Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.