Montgomery Clift Quotes
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
Montgomery Clift
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Author Details:
Type:
Actor Quotes
Category:
American Actor Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 17, 1920
Date of Death:
July 23, 1966
Nationality:
American
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Actor,
Art,
Audience,
Enlarge,
Enough,
Glass,
Hold,
Holding,
Identify,
Just,
Line,
Magnifying,
Mirror,
Nature,
Only,
Situation,
Up,
Were,
Would,
Wrong,
Your
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