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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer

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"Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul."

Soul Actors Taught

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker

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"When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it."

Trying Actors Serious

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Owen Wilson Actor

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"I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor."

Taken Actors

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Kevin Bacon Actor

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"There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars."

Two Actors Liars

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Harrison Ford Actor

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"My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor."

Character Goal Actors

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Christopher Parker Actor

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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

Kids Actors Doctors

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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker

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"When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions."

People Actors Vision

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Cary Grant Actor

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"If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors."

Actors Advice Bumps

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Shirley Chisholm Politician, Educator

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"Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world."

World Actors Congress

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Stella Adler Actress, Director

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"Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring."

Actors Life Is Weather

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer

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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."

Actors Acting Lines

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director

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"The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage."

Reality Actors Faces

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker

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"The actor becomes an emotional athlete."

Actors Emotional Athlete

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Sarah Bernhardt Actress, Playwright

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"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."

Soul Actors Tasks

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Stella Adler Actress, Director

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"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."

Actors Growth Theatre

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Maggie Smith Actress

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"An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be."

Want Actors Emotion

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Owen Wilson Actor

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"What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent."

Actors Accents American Movie

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director

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"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."

Actors Bores

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer

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"If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me."

Funny Actors Acting

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Audrey Hepburn Actress, Humanitarian

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"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."

Actors Movie

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