Acting Quotes

• "Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too."
  By: Donald Sinden
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• "An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent."
  By: Norma Shearer
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• "I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience]"
  By: Tom Selleck
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• "There are no small parts. Only small actors."
  By: Ginger Rogers
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• "Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
  By: Miranda Richardson
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• "A lot of what acting is paying attention."
  By: Robert Redford
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• "I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?"
  By: Monty Python
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• "Ah just act the way ah feel."
  By: Elvis Presley
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• "All men practice the actor's art."
  By: Petron
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• "You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down."
  By: Sarah Jessica Parker
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• "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."
  By: Dorothy Parker
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• "The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers."
  By: Al Pacino
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• "I have to act to live."
  By: Sir Lawrence Olivier
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• "Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised."
  By: Roger Moore
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• "I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."
  By: Mary Tyler Moore
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• "This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it."
  By: Robert Mitchum
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