Acting And Actors

(85 votes)   You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day Lewis
British-born American Actor

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(84 votes)   I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Skeet Ulrich
1970-, American Actor

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(79 votes)   The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino
1940-, American Actor, Director

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(78 votes)   More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagen

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(75 votes)   We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(71 votes)   Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clichT. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

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(68 votes)   I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Forest Whitaker
1961-, American Actor, Director

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(67 votes)   The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.

Brandy
1979-, American Actress

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(66 votes)   Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman
1925-, American Actor, Director, Philanthropist, Producer

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(65 votes)   An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Norma Shearer
1900-1983, Canadian-born American Actress

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(64 votes)   Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(62 votes)   Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(61 votes)   I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

Jean-Claude Van Damme
1960-, Belgian-born American Actor

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(59 votes)   I have to act to live.

Sir Lawrence Olivier
1907-1989, British Actor, Producer, Director

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(57 votes)   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.

Robert Mitchum
1917-1997, American Actor

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