Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about."
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Miles Davis
Musician
"It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen."
U.G. Krishnamurti
Philosopher
"You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!"
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"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
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"The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself."
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"Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING"
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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."
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"Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly."
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"An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease."
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"I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person."
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"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
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"Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything."
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"I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it."
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"If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail."
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"Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience."
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"Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting."
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"I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free."
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"You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."
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"I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me."
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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
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"Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is."
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"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
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