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“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.”

Bette Davis quotes (American actress, 1908-1989)

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“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity”

Johann Kaspar Lavater quotes (Swiss Theologian, 1741-1801)

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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

Gail Godwin quotes (US novelist and short story writer, b.1937 )

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“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“For fast acting relief, try slowing down”

Lily Tomlin quotes (American Actress and Comedian. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2003.b.1939)

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“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”

Omar Bradley quotes (American, US General,commanded US ground forces in Normandy invasion in World War II, 1893-1981)

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“Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part”

William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”

Ralph Richardson quotes (English Actor, 1902-1983)

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“Acting is happy agony.”

Jean-Paul Sartre quotes (French existentialist philosopher and writer, 1905-1980)

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“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”

Ninon de Lenclos quotes (French courtesan, Her beauty and wit attracted famous men of the day; wrote La Coquette Vengee (1659). 1620-1705)

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