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“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”

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Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

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Author:Ava Gardner

“James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'”

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Author:David Chase

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.”

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Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.”

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Author:Vivien Leigh

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”

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Author:Jet Li

“A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.”

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Author:Tim Robbins

“If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.”

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Author:Ingrid Bergman

“The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.”

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Author:Sydney Smith