"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."

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"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."

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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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

Will Durant, American Historian

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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, American Director

Acting, Approval, Artist, Quick

"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

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"It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else."

Nichelle Nichols, American Musician

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"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."

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"It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange."

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"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."

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"One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more."

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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."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"Acting is happy agony."

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

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

"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."

"It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else."

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"I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid."

"I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew."

"And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after."

"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."

"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face."

"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."

"It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange."

"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."

"One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more."