(1860–1904)
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Shadows of the Gods (1958)
Arthur Miller, American playwright (1915–2005)
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
My Autobiography (1964)
Charlie Chaplin, English comic actor, director and composer (1889–1977)
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Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
The Lonely Life (1962)
Bette Davis, American actress (1908–1989)
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda, American actress (1937–)
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Acting should be like punk in the best way. It should be a full-on expression of self – only without the broken bottles.
Uncut (2000)
John Cusack, American actor (1966–)
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Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you’re a king.
Josephine Hull, American actress (1877–1957)
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Time (1978)
Laurence Olivier, English actor (1907–1989)
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.
A Life on Film (1967)
Mary Astor, American actress (1906–1987)
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Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly.
Life Is a Banquet (1977)
Rosalind Russell, American actress (1907–1976)
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Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
Sir John Gielgud, English actor (1904–2000)
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (1902–1983)
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Themes and Variations (1950)
Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
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It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist (1870–1937)
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
Anatole France, French poet (1844–1924)
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A man’s mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
Ayala’s Angel (1881)
Anthony Trollope, English writer (1815–1882)
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I have taken great care not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Tractatus Politicus (1677)
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and writer (1872–1970)
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and writer (1872–1970)
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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)
Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)
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