Actors and acting proverbs

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◆ When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died

- Yogi Berra98

◆ I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

- Michael Caine98

◆ Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

- Ellen Barkin98

◆ I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

- Richard M Nixon98

◆ The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

- Will Durant98

◆ Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

- William Manchester98

◆ Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

- George Eliot98

◆ Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

- Seneca98

◆ I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

- Josh Hartnett98

◆ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

- Aristotle98

◆ Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

- Alyssa Milano98

◆ The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

- Alexis Carrel98

◆ Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses

- Michael Caine98

◆ I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

- Leonardo DiCaprio98

◆ Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

- Richard Avedon98