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“Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.”

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Author:Emily Osment

“The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.”

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Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.”

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Author:John Spencer

“I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.”

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Author:Rahul Bose

“Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.”

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Book:First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton

Source: First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton

“I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.”

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Author:Daniella Alonso

“Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.”

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Author:Katherine Waterston

“It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.”

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Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.”

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Author:Michael Bay

“It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.”

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Author:Wallace Shawn

“I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.”

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Author:James Wolcott

“No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman