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My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Acting is happy agony.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.