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“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits”
Dustin Hoffman quotes (American actor, b.1937)
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“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”
Charlie Chaplin quotes (British Comedian, Producer, Writer, Film Director and Composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion picture history, 1889-1977)
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“You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.”
timoune1995 Ben Kingsley quotes
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“Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.”
dulceana83 Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)
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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 quotes (American Actress, b.1976)
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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.”
Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)
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“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes (Irish born English Playwright, Orator and Politician, 1751-1816)
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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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“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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“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
Alfred Hitchcock quotes (English Film Director, 1899-1980)
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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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