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W. H. Auden

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

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

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

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"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."

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

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"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."

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