“ I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. ”
- Neil Diamond- Copy
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“ I hated performing. I love to sing but I don't love to sing in front of people. I don't have much of a feel for performing. When I think of performing, I think of being so nervous you want to throw up. That's what performing means to me. Singing in the recording studio when there's no one else around, that's a whole different thing. ”
- Art Garfunkel- Copy
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“ I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing. ”
- Torrie Wilson- Copy
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“ The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. ”
- Jeff Goldblum- Copy
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“ As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. ”
- Vince Vaughn- Copy
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“ To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself. ”
- Michael J. Owen- Copy
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“ I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ”
- Louise Nevelson- Copy
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“ Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all. ”
- George Moore- Copy
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“ When you came knocking on the door this morning I was quite happy playing the guitar, for fun, I mean and not practicing and I'll always be that way. ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
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“ We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader. ”
- Tom Baker- Copy
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“ When I signed on, I just signed on to do the acting part. ”
- Reese Witherspoon- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either. ”
- Lucille Ball- Copy
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“ I don't do this type of appearance very often. But this was something different. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
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