"Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an……" — Sidney Poitier
"Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real."
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88 Quotes by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier has 88 quotes on this site.
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to…
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted…
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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History passes the final judgment
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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the…
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I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and…
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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what…
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation…
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social…
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
— Kevin Bacon
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