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Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

Could I see him acting as Warren Beatty directed, and what would that be like? When you see him as those characters, once you get to know him, there is so much of him in them. In fact, I saw so much of him in them that it made me laugh.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.

[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be.

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?

Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

Each man has some part to play.

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.