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The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
- Acting
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In States unborn, and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CassiusIn context
- Acting
- History
I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene II, spoken by BottomIn context
- Acting
- Comedy
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context
- Acting
- Art
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
- Acting
- Sleep
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Acting
- Life & Death
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), EpilogueIn context
- Acting
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
- Acting
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith1934–2024“You have to laugh” (2004)
- Acting
Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spaceyborn 1959Oscar acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actor, The Usual Suspects (25 March 1996)
- Comedy
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
James Spaderborn 1960Playboy (May 2005)
- Acting
- Love
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.
Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907), Preface
- Acting
- Fame
We’re actors⁠—we’re the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63
- Acting