"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."

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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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Judd Nelson, American Actor

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Kevin Bacon, American Actor

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"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."

Tom Wilkinson, British Actor

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"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."

Tom Wilkinson, British Actor

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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."

Josie Maran, American Model

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"I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon."

Christopher Knight, American Actor

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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."

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"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."

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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."

"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."

"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."

"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."

"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."

"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."

"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."

"I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon."

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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."

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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary."

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."

"A big iron needle stitching the country together."

"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing."

"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."