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"The only greatness for man is immortality."
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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."
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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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"You can become great through the power of time."
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"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
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"It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great."
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"We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness."
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"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."
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"Greatness demands great courage."
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"Greatness is the flower of great adversity."
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"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves."
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"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
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"But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds."
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"The only greatness for man is immortality."
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"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
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"To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle."
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"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."
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"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication."
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"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
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