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I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Nick Enright

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Tags: acting, being, cate blanchett, charlie rose, human, life

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Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

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If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well.

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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

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Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

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A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

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Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf o...

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About Nick Enright

Nicholas Paul Enright AM (22 December 1950 – 30 March 2003) was an Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director.