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Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!


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Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.



Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.



If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.



Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.



Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.



Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.



An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.



Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.



The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.



That which hinders your task is your task.

That which hinders your task is your task.





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The God who delivered Hezekiah and the children of Israel is the same God who is eager to act on my behalf.



Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

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When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.



What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.



...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.

...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.



Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.



We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

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Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.



It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.



I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.




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