"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

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"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

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"Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court."

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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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"I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices."

Lacey Chabert, American Actress

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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."

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"The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands."

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"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

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"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."

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"When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that."

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"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."

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"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."

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"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

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