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Miguel de Cervantes
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
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Edith Ann
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Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.
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Marlon Brando
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Glenda Jackson
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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
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Ellen Barkin
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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William Hazlitt
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Bette Davis
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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Richard M. Nixon
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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Paul Newman
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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Ronald Reagan
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I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
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SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
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Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.
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Wayne W Dyer
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Uta Hagan
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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Jeanne Moreau
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
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Albert Pike
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A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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Henry David Thoreau
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. . . . What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
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Cynthia Heimel
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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Johann von Goethe
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Lord Billingsley
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The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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Bertrand Russell
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
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Sophia Loren
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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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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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
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Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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"Spiral! Stop acting so grim and begin the Dance!" - Mojo
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"I did not study acting to portray a cartoon character." - Bujold
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"Fascinating," said Spock, watching Kirk's lousy acting.
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"It's time we stopped reacting and started acting." - Hague
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"Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability."
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"Fascinating," said Nimoy, watching Shatner's lousy acting.
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"Fascinating." said Spock, watching Kirk's lousy acting.
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"I do admire Raquel Welch's acting," said Tom figuratively.
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"I do admire Dolly Parton's acting," said Tom, figuratively.
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"Isn't faking the essence of acting?" Katharine Hepburn
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"Mr. Golan Globus...this acting stuff is hard!"
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"Those acting classes are really paying off!" Yakko Warner
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"Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing."
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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.
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"You're wooden, but you're acting." -- Mike Nelson
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Any IC protected by a fast acting fuse protects the fuse.
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"You're not acting, are you?" Gary Seven to Roberta Lincoln
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"Let's do it." - Dr. Beverly Crusher, Acting Captain
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"Look at that acting! Hackman is *always* good." -- Crow
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"Say, those acting classes are really paying off!" - Yakko
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"Seven years bad acting..." -- Joel Robinson
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"Well then, now... have to make him an Acting Ensign...." Picard
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"Something stinks. I think it's the acting." -- Crow T. Robot
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"There's no point in acting all surprised about it." the Vogons
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"Snap out of it. Start acting like men!" Kirk
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"They've been acting weird all morning." - Tenchi
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordan
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"So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised."
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"No acting beyond this point!" -- Tom Servo
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I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
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"Oh, there he goes, off on another ACTING adventure!" - Medusa
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"Shhh! I'm acting!" -- Tom Servo
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"I'm really acting now..." Tom Servo
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