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• I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

  Gavin MacLeod

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• I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I’m a huge fan of.

  Gary Michael Cole

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• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn’t take a million years of screen time.

  Gary Michael Cole

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• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.

  William Kempe

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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to – that’s your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it’s just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof – and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

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• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  William Hurt

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• It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

  William Hurt

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  Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  Bette Davis

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• I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

  Esai Morales

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• Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

  Yakov Smirnoff

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• But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what’s going on.

  Ethan Suplee

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

  Bette Davis

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have. Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.

  James Dean

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they’re an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Alexis Carrel

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• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  Washington Irving

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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

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• Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

  George Eliot

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• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

  Josh Hartnett

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• I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

  Josh Hartnett

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