To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be wi… — Nicolas Cage

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nicolas CageActor · b. 1964

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. — Henry Miller
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