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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way -- Aristotle
What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs? A philosopher -- Phil Proctor
Perfectly Scandalous was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly -- Robert Benchley
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it -- Bette Davis
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find -- Colin Powell
The word Action! frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it -- Sophia Loren
We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity -- Peter Lisagor
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor -- Joseph P. Kennedy
Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one -- Roddy McDowall
I never had my own name on a bathing suit on Baywatch. I was always given one that said Pamela or Yasmine. I earned my own suit, at the end of the season, which I now have framed -- Carmen Electra
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. -- Sean Penn
There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting. -- James Caan
I'm acting with the best actors in the world. -- Jeremy Piven
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons. -- Nicholas Hoult
I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have. -- Jemima Kirke
Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent. -- Jules Renard
acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors. -- Diane Keaton
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. -- Dennis Farina
I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking. -- Tasha Smith
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. -- Lee Daniels
I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. -- Alan Ball
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. -- Lauren Bacall
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting. -- Rhys Ifans
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. -- Leo Rosten
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. -- John Boorman
Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors. -- Holly Golightly
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company -- Tony Randall
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company. -- Tony Randall
Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings. -- Marjo-Riikka Makela
I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination. -- Edi Gathegi
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. -- Estelle Parsons
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. -- Harold Ramis
I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers. -- Katey Sagal
In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them. -- Rob Lowe
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. -- Tallulah Bankhead
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. -- Debra Wilson
A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore. -- Genie Francis
I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan. -- John Carney
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. -- Larry Moss
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. -- W. H. Auden
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. -- Matthew Lillard
In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read. -- Laura Vandervoort
Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. -- Susannah York
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby]. -- Paul Dalio
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career. -- Cate Blanchett
Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time. -- Craig Ferguson
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. -- Tim Robbins
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. -- Denis Leary
Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring. -- Rosemarie DeWitt
I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director. -- Nicholas Sparks
The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else. -- Scott Bakula
I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can. -- Dito Montiel
Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying. -- Jane Goodall
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? -- Rachel Weisz
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. -- Martha Wainwright
One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them. -- Allison Janney
Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary. -- Michael Sheen
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide. -- Boyd Holbrook
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need. -- Tyne Daly
For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically. -- Ian Mckellen
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors. -- Nicolas Roeg
Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting. -- William H. Macy
What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking. -- Bryan Cranston
I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation. -- Sasha Alexander
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with. -- Sam Neill
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal. -- Ashley Johnson
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work. -- Mike Leigh
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18. -- Robert De Niro
If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day. -- Luke Evans
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents. -- Bob Hope
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something. -- Damian Lewis
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. -- Preity Zinta
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors. -- Patrick Macnee
I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting. -- Xavier Dolan
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting. -- Rachel Ward
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people. -- Ben Mendelsohn
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent. -- Wolfgang Puck
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting. -- Stanley Tucci
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic. -- Mike Leigh
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors. -- Mike Leigh
Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old. -- John Sayles
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache. -- Billy Campbell
This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera. -- Michael Strahan
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on. -- Mariel Hemingway
[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual. -- Werner Herzog

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