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"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
Fact
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
Society
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
Career
"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."
Art
"I was always a self-conscious person."
Self
"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made."
Money
"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
Art
"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does."
Confidence
"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice."
Art
"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
Peace
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