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“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
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The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
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La recitazione non è un'arte, ma la somma di tutte le arti. Anzi, grazie alla mia professione posso dire che un attore è di gran lunga migliore di un essere umano perché non è costretto ad essere sé stesso e può sempre recitare la parte migliore del suo sé fittizio.
“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.”
“I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
“To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.”
“Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.”
“I'm much more interested in what's behind acting, which is the inquiry into the human condition.”
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