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"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
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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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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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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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
Art
"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
Acting
"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
Chaos
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
Knowledge
"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
Thought
"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."
Genius
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