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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Acting is kind of brutal.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Acting and theatrics are my forte.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

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.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.