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“The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.”

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Author:Glenda Jackson

“maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.”

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Book:Flight to Yesterday

Source: Flight to Yesterday

“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.”

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Author:Hallie Flanagan

“You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.”

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Author:Julia Marlowe

“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.”

“I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.”

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Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area. Voice actors are all too often presented with a wad of XL sheets, no proper character notes, context or reference and are just expected to perform.”

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Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.”

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Book:Adventures in the Screen Trade

Source: Adventures in the Screen Trade

“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."”

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Author:Karen Allen

“The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.”

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Author:Matthew McConaughey

“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin