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

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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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"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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Frankie Muniz, American Actor

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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."

Michael C. Hall, American Actor

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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."

Patrice Leconte, French Director

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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

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"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

Ryan Reynolds, Canadian Actor

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

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

"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."

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

"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."

"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."

"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."

"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."

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"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."