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5960 Actor Quotes

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Art Consciousness Even Exacerbate
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Always Bit Dying Every
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Becomes Enough Hands He
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

America Big Center Eye
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Century Each Event Horror
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In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

America Blows Bullets Cell
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

About Act Bad Creative
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Borders Democracy Discovers Far
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Alimony Class Curse Writing
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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

America Few FewPeople Irreverent
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Afraid Cats Cockroaches Horses
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Always Another Being Bit
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Battles Gain Given Honor
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

American AmericanLife AmericanMen Because
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Count History Individuals Most
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I hate everything which is not in myself.

Everything Hate Myself Which
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

AllTheWorld Blood Cry Dirty
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Anxiety Man Natural Role
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Absurd Here Huge IThink
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Awful Both Evil Exceptional
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Actions History Make Men
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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Ambition Conceived Destiny Extraordinary
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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Answers Certain Come Could
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Activity Answer Back Because
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

Actor Myself Never Seriously
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

Because ByTheTime Die Dying
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Actor Comedy Cool Dramatic
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I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

Definitely Dramatic Like More
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Believe Casting IThink Movie
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Ford Francis Growing GrowingUp
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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

Gold He Head Hit
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It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
Bad Being Bunch Country
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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

Between Bush Difference Evil
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I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Drink Much You
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Art Dance Drive Every
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Believe Dead I Believe Learning
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

Actor Actually Good Know
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Beer Best Damn Drink
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Acting Everybody Favorite Job
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Age Awhile Encounter Ever
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

Actor Basically Because Deep
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

Around Financially Know Lost
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Able Art Before Beginning
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Because Frankly Got Like
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