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I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like one. I act like one. _x000D_ But having God as an identity changer is so much more. It's lavish abandon to who God is and who He's made me to be. Holding nothing back!

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.

Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.