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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one’s center.

  Lao Tzu

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• Goethe said, ‘Talent is developed in privacy, ‘ you know?And it’s really true. There is a need for aloneness which i don’t think most people realize for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting.

  Marilyn Monroe

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• My illusions didn’t have anything to do with being a fine actress, i knew how third rate i was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes i was wearing inside. But, my God, how i wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  Marilyn Monroe

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• As an actor, I felt I couldn’t compete. I wasn’t as cute as the leading man; I wasn’t as brilliant as Robin Williams.

  Phil Hartman

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• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Peter Shaffer

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• Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it’s easier to accept people in roles if you don’t know a lot about them.

  Peter MacNicol

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• Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

  Peter Jackson

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• I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.

  Peter Coyote

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• I’m the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

  Peta Wilson

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• There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

  Pearl White

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• You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

  Paul Robeson

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• In the end, it’s acting, it’s not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

  Paul Greengrass

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• I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

  Paul Giamatti

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• I don’t think film actors need training, really.

  Paul Giamatti

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• I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don’t like.

  Paul Giamatti

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• As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I’m not going to get any more work; it’s about not having enough money.

  Paul Giamatti

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• I’ve met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it’s not worth working with them!

  Patrick Stewart

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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you’re an actor, you know, don’t really need to learn how to do it.

  Patrick Macnee

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• I didn’t fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn’t live without it.

  Geraldine Chaplin

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