"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."

Acting, Fact, Respect, Spring

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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."

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

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"As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school."

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"Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible."

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"I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career."

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"The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after."

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"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."

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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."

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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."

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