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ACTORS
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A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
      - Jean Anouilh

It was only one of those plays in which the actors, unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.
      - Robert Benchley

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
      - Marlon Brando

The better the actor the more stupid he is.
      - Truman Capote

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
      - Clint Eastwood

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
      - Whoopi Goldberg,
        quoted on the "Today" television show

Actors are cattle.
      - Alfred Hitchcock,
        in the "Saturday Evening Post"

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
      - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
      - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")

To be an actor you have to be a child.
      - Paul Newman

Acting is pretending to be someone else.
      - Anna Paquin, in the London "Guardian"

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.
      - Elvis Presley

The stock actor is a stage calamity.
      - George Bernard Shaw

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
      - Elizabeth Taylor

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
      - Harry Morris Warner

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