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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

Alfred North Whitehead
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Jack Lemon
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Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not. -Jenny Mccarthy
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alec Guinness
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The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.

Leonardo Dicaprio
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I have nothing to complain about... except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man. -Rupert Everett
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Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.

Roddy Mcdowall
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I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Dustin Hoffman
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My cat speaks sign language with her tail. -Robert A. M. Stern
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Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Ninon de Lenclos
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

Alec Guinness
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What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? -Laurence Olivier, Sir
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

Michael Caine
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The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Laurence Olivier, Sir
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle:  we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. -Omar Bradley
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Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Jack Nicholson
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The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Reese Witherspoon
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Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today. -Kirsten Dunst
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I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

Josh Hartnett
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Without acting I cannot breathe.

Laurence Olivier, Sir
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An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening. -Marlon Brando
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Alec Guinness
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I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Rene Russo
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A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea. -Walter Kerr
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Alyssa Milano
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

Rachael Leigh
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If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor. -Joseph P. Kennedy
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Nancy Reagan
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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

Cary Grant
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. -William Manchester
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