Plymouth, United Kingdom

Acting

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University website: www.plymouth.ac.uk
Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting
The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott, The Talisman, Introduction.
Acting
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
George Moore, Mummer-Worship.
Acting
For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore quoted in George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the fifties.
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