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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.

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.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

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

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.