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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Making movies in France is different, but it's still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you're scared, always, but I really love doing films in America, because I love to speak English. But I think there's something very entertaining about American films. But I also like the intimacy of French films.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.