Alan Rickman on acting

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• The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

  George Burns1896–1996

• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

  Ralph Richardson1902–1983Often credited to Benjamin Franklin

• If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

  Marlon Brando1924–2004

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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