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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 a situation. If it were a mirror we would have no art.
Source: In Words of Wisdom, by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1989.
-- Montgomery Clift, (Oct 17 1920-1966), US actor; He was best known for playing troubled heros: From Here to Eternity, 1953; The Misfits, 1961.