"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the..."
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"Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter..."
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"Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved..."
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"Have a very good reason for everything you do...."
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"I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of..."
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"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a..."
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"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to..."
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"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor -- to..."
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"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an..."
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"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods,..."
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"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it...."
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"I'd like [people] to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a..."
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"If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey...."
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"If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra..."
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"I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at..."
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"It's just like a nursery game of make-believe."
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"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
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"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden..."
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"Most people put acting behind them when they reach puberty, and very often..."
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"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside..."
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"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some..."
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"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand...."
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"The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions...."
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"There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals..."
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"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act."
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"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still..."
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"What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?..."
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"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older,..."
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"Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is..."
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