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• In some ways, I’ve always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

  Petula Clark

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• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there’s no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  Peter Sarsgaard

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• When you consider that you’re a character that doesn’t speak, but you’ve still got to react to the other actors, you’ve got to make a noise of some kind.

  Peter Mayhew

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• I don’t think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

  Peter Lawrence Boyle Jr.

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• I went whole hog at the actor’s lifestyle – really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary – that’s the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

  Peter Jurasik

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• If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

  Peter Fonda

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• Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they’ll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they’ll fall flat on their faces. That’s what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don’t play it safe.

  Peter Farrelly

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• My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

  Peter Facinelli

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• I didn’t set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

  Peter Cushing

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• She said, and I’m not kidding, ‘Is this a speaking role?’ I wasn’t quite sure how to answer that one.

  Peter Bergman

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• The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

  Peter Bart

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• I am only an actress when they say, ‘action’ and I stop being an actress when they say, ‘cut’. I am a normal person outside of acting.

  Paz Vega

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• My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

  Paula Poundstone

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• Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

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• And after you’ve done the acting, there’s a lot of places you can put your input – in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

  Paul Reiser

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• I don’t want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I’m an actor – I guess. A journeyman actor. I think ‘star’ is what you call actors who can’t act.

  Paul Muni

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• What career? A man’s got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I’ll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don’t want to be an actor for hire.

  Paul Hogan

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• The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like s*x. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

  Paul Bettany

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• I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I’ve ever seen on the movies.

  Patrick Macnee

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• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  Patrick Macnee

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