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"An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening." »Marlon Brando
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"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer." »Marlon Brando
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"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow." »Edwin Booth
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"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor." »Roger Moore
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'" »Alfred Hitchcock
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"I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity." »Orlando Bloom
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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." »James Dean
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"An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling." »Donald Sinden
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson
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"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself." »Jeanne Moreau
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"On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford
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"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being." »Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." »Bette Davis
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"The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." »Arsenio Hall
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"Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*" »Bhartrihari
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"When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier" »Carol Burnett
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"...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night." »H. L. Mencken
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