"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."
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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."
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"When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up."
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
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"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."
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"When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point."
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"My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score."
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"I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here."
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"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched."
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"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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"Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know."
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"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
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"Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out."
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"I need to go where people are serious about acting."
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"The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks."
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"A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls."
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"There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there."
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