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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. - Ellen Barkin

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. – Ellen Barkin

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When they make a womans picture, they treat it like a womans picture. In the 40s, they didnt treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. Im upset that theres no Terminator with a woman in Arnold Schwarzeneggers role. Because that would make just as much money. – Ellen Barkin

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movies
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But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that. – Ellen Barkin

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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. – Robert Bresson

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they dont come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. – Michael Caine

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Such is an actors life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. On filming MacHales Navy – Bruce Campbell

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