"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

Acting, Lying, Play

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"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."

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"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."

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"The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there."

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"It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live."

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"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."

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"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it."

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"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."

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"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."

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"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."

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