"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

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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."

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

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

"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."

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."

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"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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