"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

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"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."

Julie Christie, British Actress

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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."

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

Piper Laurie, American Actress

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"I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred."

Portia de Rossi, Australian Actress

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"Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself."

John Gielgud, English Actor

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"Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?"

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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

Kristin Scott Thomas, English Actress

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"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."

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"Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting."

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

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"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."

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"Enemies are so stimulating."

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"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."

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"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

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"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four."

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"Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in."

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"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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"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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