| "acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us." »Edith Ann |
| "acting is not about dressing up. acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant." »Glenda Jackson |
| "acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis." »Marlon Brando |
| "acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion." »Kate Reid |
| "Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation." »Bette Davis |
| "I love acting. It is so much more real than life." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part." »William Hazlitt |
| "acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." »Sir Laurence Olivier |
| "I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate..." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience." »Ronald Reagan |
| "acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience." »Paul Newman |
| "acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." »Sir Ralph Richardson |
| "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." »Edmund Burke |
| "Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed." »Wayne W Dyer |
| "acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself." »Jeanne Moreau |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind." »Albert Pike |
| "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." »Cynthia Heimel |
| "Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service." »Lord Billingsley |
| "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren |
| "I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." »Aristotle |
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