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Acting is happy agony.


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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.



An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.



Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.



I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.



All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.



There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.



A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.



The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.



I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.



I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.





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When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!



There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.



It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole



I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.



Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.



We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.



I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.



There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.



We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.




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