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“An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.”

Alec Guinness quotes

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“Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.”

Alyssa Milano quotes (American Actress. b.1972 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

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“I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.”

Jack Nicholson quotes (American Actor, Producer and Film Director. b.1937)

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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.”

Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)

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“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.”

Jack Lemon quotes

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“Without acting I cannot breathe.”

Laurence Olivier, Sir quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director, 1907-1989)

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“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”

Charlie Chaplin quotes (British Comedian, Producer, Writer, Film Director and Composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion picture history, 1889-1977)

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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.”

Laurence Olivier, Sir quotes (English Actor, Producer and Film Director, 1907-1989)

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“Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.”

John Gielgud quotes

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“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes (Irish born English Playwright, Orator and Politician, 1751-1816)

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