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Elaine Dundy

"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."

Elaine Dundy, American Novelist
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"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic
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"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher
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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 am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor
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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

W. H. Auden, English Poet
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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, American Director
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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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"It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else."

Nichelle Nichols, American Musician
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