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"As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it."
"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
"The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
"Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow."
"Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you."
"All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market"
"Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world."
"The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out."
"Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script."
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
"Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues."
"There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen."
"I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos."
"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
"Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something."
