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

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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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"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

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

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"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."

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

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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."

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

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

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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."

"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."

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

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

"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."

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

"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."

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

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

"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."

"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."

"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."

"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."