"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."

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"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Acting, Man

"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Acting,

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

Will Durant, American Historian

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

Acting, Soldiers

"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."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Acting,

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, American Director

Acting, Approval, Artist, Quick

"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."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

Acting, Day, Film

"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."

Micky Dolenz, American Actor

Acting, Learning, Now

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"I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy."

Home

"I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with."

People

"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."

Work

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."

Life

"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."

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"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"Acting is happy agony."

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

"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

"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."

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

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

"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."

"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."

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"I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy."

"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."

"Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation."

"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."

"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."

"I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with."

"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."

"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."

"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."