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Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?