Paul Henreid Quotes
I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."
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I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me than playing football.
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I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
