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Marilyn MonroeHollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

 - Marilyn Monroe

Tags:   acting  Hollywood  kiss  soul  

William ShakespeareAll the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

 - William Shakespeare

Tags:   acting  entrance  exit  stage  world  

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

 - Glenda Jackson

Tags:   acting  lines  

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that. . . the ghosts you chase you never catch.

 - John Malkovich

Tags:   acting  resilience  theatre  

Oscar WildeThe mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel, it is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

 - Oscar Wilde

Tags:   acting  art  expression  instinct  teaching  

Marilyn MonroePlease don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

 - Marilyn Monroe

Tags:   acting  celebrity  fame  jokes