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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times, almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. - Bette Davis


I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. - Antoine De Rivarol


I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was. - Stanley Kubrick


We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. - Henri Frederic Amiel


Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare


The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. - Ethel Barrymore


If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Sir Walter Scott


The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. - Leonardo Da Vinci

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