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"Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?"
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"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'"
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"I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor."
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"Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public."
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"I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it."
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"That's such a relevant thing, as an actor - committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do have to block things out sometimes, and sometimes it's easier than others."
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"I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director."
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"Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured."
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"Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor."
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"All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation."
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"Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor."
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"When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out."
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"Actors are athletes of the heart."
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"The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct."
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"That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week."
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"Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it."
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"I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor.""
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"Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor"
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"I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it."
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