Cracow, Poland

Faculty III of Vocal and Acting Studies

Wydział III Wokalno-Aktorski

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Faculty III of Vocal and Acting Studies at AMK

University website: www.amuz.krakow.pl/en/

Definitions and quotes

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
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.
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
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting,'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (1774), line 101.
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