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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

How can you measure acting in inches?

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.

I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And, I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of me. I'm a very normal, down-to-earth person, but I wanted the videos to be striking, so I have to lay it on a little bit.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.

I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting - be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that Im so completely in the back seat.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.