A Quote by Norman Lloyd
An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
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Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.
Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,
And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.
Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad.
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.
The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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