"How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on."
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"It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent"
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"I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking."
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"Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights."
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"I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister."
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"Acting is a really insular thing."
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"Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?"
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"The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight."
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"The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being."
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"I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand."
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"Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors."
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"There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose."
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"If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too."
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"My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting."
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"How can you measure acting in inches?"
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"Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two."
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"You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in."
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"Meditation is the action of silence."
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"General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.""
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"I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing."
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