Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. - Laurence Olivier

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The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s the business world was already trying to find ways to beat it back.

Laurence Olivier

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

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Acting, is not a profession for adults.

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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

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There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

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Without acting, I cannot breathe.

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We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

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Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War. . . Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't. . . the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.

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Marshall McLuhan

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

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Michael Savage

[Alfred] Kinsey, as you well know, was a complete whacko. Most of his studies have been shown to be false.

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Candice Swanepoel

If it wasn't meant to be, it would have never been.

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Noam Chomsky

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