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William James
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| "Act well at the moment, And you have performed a good action for all
eternity." | |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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| "Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life." | |
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Denzel Washington
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| "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a
friend ? if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening
night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the
first performance. Will attend the second ? if there is one." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight
acquaintance and without any visible reason." | |
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Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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| "EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an
undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already
embraced." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there
all the honor lies." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of
the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So,
in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only
are serious." | |
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Henry St. John Bolingbroke
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| "I love acting. It is so much more real than life." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay
ahead of us." | |
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Nancy Reagan
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| "If there?s anything unsettling to the stomach, it?s watching actors
on television talk about their personal lives." | |
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Marlon Brando
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| "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a
particular way." | |
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Aristotle
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| "On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; "T was only that
when he was off he was acting." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new
acquaintance." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Some of the greatest love affairs I"ve known have involved one
actor--unassisted." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "Talk low, talk slow, and don"t say too much." | |
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John Wayne
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| "The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is
to get a definite outline of our ignorance." | |
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George Eliot
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| "The world "s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do
with actors fill." | |
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Thomas Heywood
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| "The world"s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do
with actors fill." | |
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John Heywood
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| "We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the
others we boast." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of
our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being
sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being
more so by those who do not know so much of us." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "When you perform ... you are out of yourself?larger and more potent,
more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on
earth. And it is yours nightly." | |
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Agnes de Mille
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| "You have to believe in yourself, that"s the secret. Even when I was
in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to
eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the
world." | |
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Charlie Chaplin
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