"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."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author."
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"For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors."
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"To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character."
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"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
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"I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan."
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"You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life."
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"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage."
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"I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."
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"Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love."
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"I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time."
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"The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays."
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"To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'"
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"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."
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"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being."
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"The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience."
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"If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood."
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"There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that."
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"I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!"
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