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They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.