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title: "2 Perfection Acting Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-qualley/ballet-there-s-a-right-way-to-do-things-and-it-s-black-and-white-and/)

[Margaret Qualley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-qualley/)

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> [Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things with an eye towards perfection. But in acting, it isn't always necessarily good to be like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonoya-mizuno/since-ballet-has-such-a-solid-classical-framework-everything-is/)

[Sonoya Mizuno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonoya-mizuno/)

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