| Inspiration |
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| "Darn right, it�s fun." -Tommy Lee Jones, when asked if making movies is fun. |
| The most important thing is desire� you have to really want to. It has to be the most important thing to you." -Tommy Lee Jones, when asked to give advice to new actors. |
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| Acting in general, is something most people think they're incapable of but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age. - Marlon Brando [Newsweek, 13 March 1972] |
| Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life-that's exciting. - Gene Hackman [Show, 1972] |
| Humphrey Bogart: Acting is experience with something sweet behind it. |
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| Timing! My mother gave me that. I was born with it. I don't think you can teach a person to act. - Sir Charles Chaplin [Radio Times, March 1979] |
| One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. Robert De Niro: |
| Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent. Anthony Quinn: [Sunday Express, 1960] |
| I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. - Michael Caine [Film yearbook, 1985] |
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| . . . sometimes, when these guys speak out . . . I get embarrassed. Robert Duvall Moviemaker Magazine Issue 50 Vol. 10 Spring 2003 |
| "Convincing acting is behaving, not imitating, like another person." Ted Bragg www.tedbragg.com |
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| I don't want you to see the acting, I want you to see the behavior. Bruce Willis on the set of the Sixth Sense |
| We're going to be gone one day and all that's going to be left are these movies. So that's why I think you have to think hard about the ones you do and the ones you decide to do you have to play hard at making them great. Kevin Costner On the first day of filming "Open Range" |
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| 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. -- Alec Guinness |