All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Acting”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“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.”
“A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.”
“I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.”
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”
“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”
“When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.”

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