"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."

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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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"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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"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Acting,

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

Will Durant, American Historian

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, American Director

Acting, Approval, Artist, Quick

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

Acting, Day, Film

"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."

Elaine Dundy, American Novelist

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"I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me."

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"If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation."

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"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."

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"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."

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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."

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

"Acting is happy agony."

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

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

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

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."

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"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."

"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."

"There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do."

"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising."

"I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me."

"If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation."

"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."

"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."

"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."

"I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure."