"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."
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"The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting."
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"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
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"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
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"One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting."
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"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."
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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
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"I love to do the things the censors won't pass."
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"The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another."
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"When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world."
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"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."
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"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"
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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."
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"We don't settle for anything less than excellence."
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"Acting is an empty and useless profession."
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"If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me."
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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"I think your self emerges more clearly over time."
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"Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable."
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"I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting."
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