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"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
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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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"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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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"
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"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
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"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."
Home
"Tenderness is a virtue."
Virtue
"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
Acting
"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
Happiness
"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."
Genius
"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
Want
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
Life
"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."
Talk
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
People
"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."
Man
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