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"Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized."
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"An actors' tribute to me is in his work."
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"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"Art is longer than life."
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"If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?"
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