"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

Acting, Profession

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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

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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

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"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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"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

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"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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"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

Life

"If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married."

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"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

Time

"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."

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"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

Life

"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

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"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

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