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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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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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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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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."
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"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."
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"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
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"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."
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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights
"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."
Nothing
"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."
Man
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
Creativity
"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."
Desire
"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."
Imagination
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
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