"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."

Acting, Creation, Trade, Wonder

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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

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

Will Durant, American Historian

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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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."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

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"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."

Melanie Chisholm, English Musician

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"Acting is acting."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

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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?"

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

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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."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

Acting, Artists, Singing, Vitality

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"Strong women only marry weak men."

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"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."

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"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."

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"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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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."

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

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

"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."

"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."

"Acting is acting."

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

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

"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."

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

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"Strong women only marry weak men."

"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."

"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."

"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

"Everybody has a heart. Except some people."

"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."

"I've always liked men better than women."

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."