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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
"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."
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines."
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
"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."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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