John Barrymore Quotes
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
Quotes to Explore
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
