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#1

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#2

“Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: acting

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#3

“Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.”
― Alan Rickman

tags: acting, talent

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#4

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: acting, actors, dinner, drama, dramatic, fantastic, food, funny, humor, i-love-the-theater, i-love-the-theatre, murder, mysteries, nostalgia, opera, opera-house, plays, playwrights, politics, satire, secrets, theater, theatre, theatre-of-the-absurd

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#5

“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
― Shelley Winters

tags: acting, age, beauty, nudity, theater, youth

66 likes

#6

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

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#7

“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting, challenge, comfort-zone, fun

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#8

“I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting, exercise, spy

32 likes

#9

“I have actual acting scars.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting, scars

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#10

“I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting, actor, ambition, choose, opportunity, privilege, work

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#11

“I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

tags: acting

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