"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."

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"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."

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"Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself."

John Gielgud, English Actor

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"Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?"

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"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."

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"I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special."

Michael C. Hall, American Actor

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"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

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"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"Acting is a form of confusion."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress

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"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

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"That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn."

Parminder Nagra, English Actress

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

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."

Dream

"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."

Work

"Men are allowed to get older and women are not."

Men

"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"

Thought

"My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater."

Goal

"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."

People

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

Television

"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."

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"The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film."

Love

"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."

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