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• Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

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  Tags in Actors And Acting, Play

• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

  Josh Hartnett

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• Goethe said, ‘Talent is developed in privacy, ‘ you know?And it’s really true. There is a need for aloneness which i don’t think most people realize for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting.

  Marilyn Monroe

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment – his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Sir Alec Guinness

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• We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity.

  Peter Lisagor

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• It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for peoples neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actors course is set even before hes out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Neurosis, Theater

• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they’re an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Alexis Carrel

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• I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Topics in Movies

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• Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

  Richard Avedon

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• I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

  Audrey Hepburn

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• When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: “He must have made that before he died

  Yogi Berra

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• Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

  Thornton Wilder

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• Actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment–to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience’s soul.

  David Ackert

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• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.

  William Kempe

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  Tags in Theatre, Actors And Acting, Ballet

• The word “Action!” frees me – the transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it

  Sophia Loren

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Cinema

• Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach – and didn’t need glasses

  Michael Caine

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• Such is an actor’s life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

  Michael Caine

  Topics in Life

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• Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

  Seneca the Younger

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• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.

  Washington Irving

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• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

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