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It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

— Rosalind Russell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

— D'Brickashaw Ferguson

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

— Jeff Bridges

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

— Kate Bosworth

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

— Angela Bassett

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

— Ranbir Kapoor

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

— Beatrice Wood

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

— Jacqueline Bisset

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

— Alec Baldwin

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

— Isabelle Huppert