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Actors and acting

«An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.»
«Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.»
«...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?»
«An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.»
«Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity»
«An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow»
«An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening»
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
«Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.»
«An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?»

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