"The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Will Durant, American Historian

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

Acting, Day, Film

"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."

Melanie Chisholm, English Musician

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"Acting is acting."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

Acting, Artists, Singing, Vitality

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"I am dying of hunger."

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"Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this."

Want

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

Movies

"The dimensions of my feelings are too violent."

Feelings

"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."

Heart

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

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"Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."

"Acting is acting."

"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

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"I am dying of hunger."

"Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this."

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

"The dimensions of my feelings are too violent."

"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there."

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie."

"Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries."

"Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it."

"When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't."

"But words - words are not enough!"