"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

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"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Act, Desire, Man, World

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

John Updike, American Novelist

Act, Applause, Glory, World

"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act, Quotation, Words

"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Georges Clemenceau, French Leader

Act, Man, Order, Thinking

"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."

Paul Watzlawick, Austrian Psychologist

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Explore more quotes by Ralph Fiennes

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

Ideas

"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."

Saying

"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

Quality

"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

People

"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."

Challenge

"We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other."

People

"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."

People

"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."

Acting

"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."

Time

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

Expectation