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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Acting and Actors
Edwin Forrest

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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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Charlie Chaplin

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The best actors do not let the wheels show.
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Henry Fonda

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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
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Roland Barthes

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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Minnie Fiske

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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Bette Davis

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There are no small parts. Only small actors.
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Ginger Rogers

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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Spencer Tracy

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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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William Hazlitt

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
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Konstantin Stanislavisky

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Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
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Jim Carrey

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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
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Henri Frederic Amiel

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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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William Hazlitt

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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
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Anton Chekhov

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You are not in business to be popular.
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Kirstie Alley

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You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
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Ron Howard

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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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Jane Fonda

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun