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“Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.”
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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 quotes (American Actress. b.1972 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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“Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.”
Shirley Booth quotes
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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?”
dshefman Cary Grant quotes (American actor, 1904-1986)
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“I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.”
Jack Nicholson quotes (American Actor, Producer and Film Director. b.1937)
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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 quotes
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“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.”
Sam Rayburn quotes (American Politician and Lawyer. He was responsible for passage of New Deal legislation, 1882-1961)
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“Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.”
Josephine Hull quotes (American Actress, 1886-1957)
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“Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life.”
Glenda Jackson quotes (British Actress and Politician, She won Oscars for Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). b.1936)
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“Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.”
Cedric Hardwicke quotes
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“Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)
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