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Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad a...

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there...

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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed...

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The most talented people are always the nicest.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

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Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (...

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Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma tell y...

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You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trus...

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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it'...

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Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.His name, as I ought to have told you before,Is really Asparagus....

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T. S. EliotOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearin...

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I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and m...

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Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they c...

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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area...

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Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'H...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of th...

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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesti...

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He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on hi...

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I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family arou...

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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You'...

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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get...

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I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to hav...

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I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the won...

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If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something...

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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your...

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People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to hav...

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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...

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Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed know...

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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narra...

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To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and th...

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