Acting And Actors

(27 votes)   The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Daniel Day Lewis
British-born American Actor

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(26 votes)   Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Jeff Goldblum
1952-, American Actor, Acting teacher

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(26 votes)   I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Lucy Lawless
1968-, New Zealander Actress

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(26 votes)   I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Minnie Driver
1971-, British-born American Actress, Guitarist, Singer

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(26 votes)   They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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