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Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.

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.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to have feelings. So it's freeing to be in a safe place like a TV or film set where you discover feelings, and where you're supposed to be open and honest with everybody while exposing the weakest parts of you. And then when people congratulate you on revealing the weakest part of who you are, then you start realizing that that might not be weakness. It might be a different kind of strength.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It'll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it's not going to change your character.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Acting is a life of rejection.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to make it as real as you can. That's the similarity. The mediums other than that are completely different. I mean you know with camera work you're doing really small detailed work and you know if you do anything too big you've sort of failed. And with stage, especially with the play I'm doing right now, I'm doing a farce, and it's so over the top that you can't actually be too big. So it's just completely different.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Acting is attached to almost everyone in Los Angeles. Everyone has stars in their eyes when they come out here. I have an expression... it's like if you turn to the left and if you turn the right; if they're not an actor, you are. It's essentially true.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.