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• I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when…
• Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than…
• What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
• When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
• No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
• Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
• Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
• Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
• Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is…
• I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy…
• My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into…

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