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Quotes about actors
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. (Bates Alan)
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation. (Bates Alan)
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist (Bates Alan)
Just let the wardrobe do the acting. (Bates Alan)
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. (Bates Alan)
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. (Bates Alan)
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. (Bates Alan)
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. (Bates Alan)
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? (Bates Alan)
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. (Bates Alan)
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. (Bates Alan)
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. (Bates Alan)
Without acting I cannot breathe. (Bates Alan)
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. (Bates Alan)
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act. (Bates Alan)
The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it. (Bates Alan)
They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given. (Bates Alan)
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you. (Bates Alan)
Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and... I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks. (Bates Alan)
You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV. (Bates Alan)
Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can. (Bates Alan)
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress. (Bates Alan)
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modeling is just an image. (Bates Alan)
I don't know what the big issue is about it [a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things]. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it. (Bates Alan)
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work. (Bates Alan)
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