"There's so much crap talked about acting."

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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

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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

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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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"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

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

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"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."

Ajay Devgan, Indian Actor

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"Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French."

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"I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen."

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"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."

Intelligence

"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."

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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."

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"I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew."

Being

"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."

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"I don't honestly think people know what acting is."

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"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."

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"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other."

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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."

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