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Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.
I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.
I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.
When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.
I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.
I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.
Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.
I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
Acting with people whom you know is like being with the family. It is a comfortable ground.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.