"The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it."
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"Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood."
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"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?"
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"Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."
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"If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue."
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"The play's the thing."
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"Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream."
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"Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting."
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"By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another."
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"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."
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"It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems."
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"I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility."
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"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."
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"There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring."
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"The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium."
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"The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise."
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"But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman"
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"I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting."
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"Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity."
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"Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story."
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