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  • #1
    “Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.”
    Gary Oldman

  • #2
    “Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.”
    Terrence Mann

  • #3
    Victor Hugo
    “Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #7
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #16
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Meryl Streep
    “Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
    Meryl Streep

  • #21
    Vera Nazarian
    “There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
    Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

  • #22
    Shelley Winters
    “I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
    Shelley Winters

  • #23
    Vincent  Price
    “What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.”
    Vincent Price

  • #24
    “I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.”
    Vivien Leigh

  • #25
    Constantin Stanislavski
    “In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel”
    Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

  • #26
    George Burns
    “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. ”
    George Burns

  • #27
    Ava Gardner
    “I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.”
    Ava Gardner

  • #28
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #29
    Lawrence Barrett
    “An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”
    Lawrence Barrett

  • #30
    Ewan McGregor
    “The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.”
    Ewan McGregor

  • #31
    Ingrid Bergman
    “I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.”
    Ingrid Bergman

  • #32
    Stephen  King
    “Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63



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