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James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
— Piper Laurie
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Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
— Edie McClurg
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Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive
— Unknown Author
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Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled…
— George Henry Lewes
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I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call…
— Billy Campbell
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Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to…
— Rex Harrison
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
— Anthony Hopkins
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Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
— Debra Winger
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Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their…
— James Wolcott
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Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are…
— Richard Hornby
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