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Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.
People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.
I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.
I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.
Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.
I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I'm ready to take up acting, too.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.
Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.
I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.
Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.
I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.
I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.
Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.
As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.