Principal actors to the stage please,
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Act One is about to begin in 8 seconds.
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[VERSE ONE:]
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First you can't act, now you can't stop,
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(What's my motivation?)
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I used to like you... a lot,
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(I was the class nerd)
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Exactly who I'm s'posed to be,
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(I'm totally Strasberg)
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You play a doctor on TV,
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(What you're doing is SO brave)
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[VERSE TWO:]
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Deep down you're dirty but you try,
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(I'm a good person)
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The truth would break you so you lie,
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(I want my work to matter)
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It's in the choices that you make,
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(I want to inspire)
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No talent, just fate.
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[CHORUS:]
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I don't know where you begin,
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I end, we start
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Again,
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They need, you love,
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We all watch
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The Actor Acting.
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[VERSE THREE:]
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Good from far but far from good,
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(All I have is my instinct)
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You love to act, I wish you would,
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(It's not acting, it's re-acting)
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Act like you're not from out of space,
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(When I'm on stage I feel alive)
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You know ambition isn't grace,
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(For me it's the craft)
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[VERSE FOUR:]
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Made of Sex, Maida Vale,
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(Would I do better in New York)
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You are the Alpha Male,
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(I'm just too pretty for that role)
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You are the good, you are the great,
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(The words have power)
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Now let me fill you with my hate.
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[CHORUS]
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[MIDDLE 8:]
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Monroe,
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(Monroe)
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Barrymore,
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(Barrymore)
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Mansfield,
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(MANSFIELD)
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D-d-d-d-Dame d-Dame d-Dame Judi Dench,
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(Judi Dench)
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Madonna Ritchie,
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(Ritchie)
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Ritchie, Ritchie, Ritchie.
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Streep,
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Close,
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Hepburn,
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Burt Reynolds.
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Niven,
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Danson,
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Bundy,
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BARDOT.
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Joaquin,
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Joaquin,
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Joaquin,
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Joaquin,
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Joaquin,
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(Joaquin)
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Joaquin,
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(Joaquin)
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Joaquin,
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(Joaquin)
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SWANK.
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[CHORUS]
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[OUTRO SPEECH:]
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In the future,
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Everybody will be anonymous for fifteen minutes,
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You are, we all are a test card,
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The stars of CCTV,
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We ARE the nature of the beast.
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The Actor
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| Robbie Williams |
