"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one."

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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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"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 am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Acting, Sensuality

"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

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"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

John Cleese, English Actor

Acting, Competence

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

Tara Lipinski, American Athlete

Acting, Chance

"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

Acting, Parents, Want

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

Parker Posey, American Actress

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"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

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"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."

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

"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."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"Acting is happy agony."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

"Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser."

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"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked."

"Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down."

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."

"The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars."

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."

"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."