We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about.

Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some...

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions; they never walk alone!

By the time I went to Yale, I’d been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless – and a little bored – and I was really eager...

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they’re in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it’s acting. I...

Acting is something you didn’t do in Ireland.

I don’t take acting classes – I’m quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the...

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

It’s best to keep acting real.

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two...

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

I was directing before I started doing ‘The IT Crowd.’ It wasn’t something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

It’s a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You’re always learning.

I’d always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don’t have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting – and now I can.

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

I’m really shy with my acting when it’s off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it’s not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That’s very inspiring and it forces you...

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

There is no right in acting.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

When I’m playing a character, I am never allowed to explicitly state the the takeaway message of the scenes I’m performing—after all, part of the dramatic conflict is that the person I’m portraying doesn’t really...

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am...

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I’d be acting in movies.

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

You’ll begin to act when you can forget your technique – when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you...

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn’t be acting.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for...

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...