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• It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

  William Hurt

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• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  William Hurt

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• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Peter Shaffer

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Theatre, Actors And Acting

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  Oscar Levant

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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

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Integrity, Truly, Man

• Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can’t provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

  Gene Tierney

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• I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

  Laurence Olivier

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• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

  Laurence Olivier

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• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

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• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

  Bette Davis

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• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  Bette Davis

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Athlete, Bigger

• I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

  Alfred Hitchcock

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Gustav Jung

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• Madonna is my role model she’s such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she’s an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Topics in Love

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

  Kenneth Clark

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• I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

  Josh Hartnett

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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

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• I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate…

  Richard Nixon

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• Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

  William Manchester

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Politicians