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“You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.”

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Author:Brendan Coyle

“God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.”

“The best actors do not let the wheels show.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.”

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'”

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Author:Arsenio Hall

“Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”

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Book:The Dud Avocado

Source: The Dud Avocado

“I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.”

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Author:Glenn Close

“You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?”

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.”

“You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.”

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Author:Noel Coward

“An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.”

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Author:Donald Sinden

“We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, ''Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?''”

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Author:Micheal Mac Liammoir

“Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.”

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Author:Glenn Close