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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it. I don't know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems.

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.