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Acting is the
expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The
principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay
for my psychoanalysis.
-- Marlon Brando
1924-, American Actor,
Director
To grasp the
full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret
it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
-- Marlon Brando
1924-, American Actor,
Director
The hardest
part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to
earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.
This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of
good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.
-- Brandy
1979-, American Actress
A man who
strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to
strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
-- Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist,
Poet
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One forgets
too easily the difference between a man and his image, and
that there is none between the sound of his voice on the
screen and in real life.
-- Robert Bresson
1907-, French Film Director
The actor
searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and
critic and audience follow suit. We have lost all sense of
ritual and ceremony -- whether it be connected with
Christmas, birthdays or funerals -- but the words remain
with us and old impulses stir in the marrow. We feel we
should have rituals, we should do something about getting
them and we blame the artists for not finding them for us.
So the artist sometimes attempts to find new rituals with
only his imagination as his source: he imitates the outer
form of ceremonies, pagan or baroque, unfortunately adding
his own trapping -- the result is rarely convincing. And
after the years and years of weaker and waterier imitations
we now find ourselves rejecting the very notion of a holy
stage. It is not the fault of the holy that it has become a
middle-class weapon to keep the children good.
-- Peter
Stephen Paul) Brook (1925-,
British Theatre and Film Director
From '86 until
the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say,
''You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going
to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been,
you may have been.'' Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like
unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this
time around.
-- Pierce Brosnan
1952-, Irish-born American
Actor
When I was a
fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great
job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill
of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge
of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.
-- Steve Buscemi
1952-, American Actor,
Director, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter
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