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“Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life”
Norman Cousins
“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”
Jack Lemon
“The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“Acting is happy agony.”
“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it's an exhalation of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.”
Laurence Olivier Sir
“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”
William Shakespeare
“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”
Marilyn Monroe
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke
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