"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."

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"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."

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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

Acting, Writing

"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

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?"

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Acting,

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

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

Acting,

"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

Acting, Actor

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"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."

Father

"I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me."

Money

"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself."

Time

"I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."

American

"The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter."

Love

"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."

Abuse

"Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond."

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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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"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."

"I've triumphed over addiction."

"Certain struggles never end."

"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."

"I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me."

"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself."

"I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."

"The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter."

"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."

"Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond."