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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. By Marilyn Monroe Back Time Guess Playact Thing

We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe. By Marian Deegan Act

If one does not act, one cannot understand. By Chiang Kai-Shek Act Understand

Acting to me is always reacting. By Spencer Tracy Acting Reacting

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" By Robert Breault Question Act Answered

You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself. By Dakota Fanning Act Totally Hundred Cent Committed

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself. By Charlotte Rampling Acting Playing

To live is not to breathe but to act. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Act Live Breathe

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper. By Vin Diesel Identity Act Time Doubt Paper

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up. By Kelly Reilly Act Find Drives Excites Lights

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. By Baltasar Gracian Act Content Leave Talking

Acting is in your soul. By Latanya Richardson Acting Soul

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable. By Steve Mcqueen Act Uncomfortable Real Beginning Back

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons. By Michael Sheen Act Secret Acting Addons

Act innocently.Act intelligently.Act instinctively.Act impressively. By Matshona Dhliwayo Act Impressively Innocentlyact Intelligentlyact Instinctivelyact

It's better to act than it is to react. Acting gets you in trouble. Reacting all too frequently gets you dead. By Seanan Mcguire React Act Acting Trouble Reacting

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible. By Sarah Shahi Acting Things Feel Natural

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you By Meryl Streep Curiosity Important Keys Acting Mystery

Everything is acting. By Marilyn Manson Acting

I act when I'm not in the mood. By T. Harv Eker Mood Act

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. By William Shakespeare Act Thought Great

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Act Learn Actions Teach

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin. By Katharine Hepburn Skin Acting

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form. By John Fowles Make Act Talking Paint Form

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works. By Anthony Hopkins Acting Reacting Listening Wayne John

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn. By Kurt Fuller Learn Acting Things People

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time By Meryl Streep Acting Time Investigating Human Nature

Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing! By Jon Polito Acting Match Lose Game Sporting

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself. By Klaus Kinski Ultimate Acting Destroy

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. By George Eliot Acting Playing Life Idea Humanize

This is not an act By Ellen G. White Act

What we think, we act. By Lailah Gifty Akita Act

Acting is what happens on the way. By Mira Sorvino Acting

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act. By Tom Peters Box Act

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening. By Wayne Rogers Acting Speaking Behavior Happening Listening

The act is a vessel that can hold a continuum of human intentions - a sweet, holy song of flesh and love, the simple, mindless rut of youth, or the darkest violation. It encompasses what we bring to it. Too often people fill it with shame. By Rhonda Riley Intentions Sweet Holy Love Simple

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming. By Alessandro Nivola Acting Allconsuming Selfish

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act. By Abbe Pierre Sunday Act Attend Church Pray

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing. By Kate Winslet Acting Parent Adult Run Socks

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. By Ted Shackelford Reality Moment Process Act

Acting is my job. By Goran Visnjic Acting Job

Acting is a mysterious process. By Bertie Carvel Acting Process Mysterious

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch. By Christopher Meloni Act Love Scratch Big Itch

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it. By Denzel Washington Acting Improvise Music Jazz Rhyme

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it. By Kiefer Sutherland Acting Significant Piece Advice Father

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy. By Peter Watts Act Strategy

It's not an act, it's just my way. By Arthur Godfrey Act

Acting to me is real life - I don't act. By Bai Ling Acting Life Act Real

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever By Masiela Lusha Acting Performance Transparently Lofty Simply

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. By Lee Strasberg Acting Occurs Logic Preparation Results

Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on. By Low Kay Hwa Acting Talent Determination Skill Requires

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected. By Preity Zinta Act Pain Love Rejected

Act. Procrastination costs money. By Farshad Asl Act Procrastination Money Costs

Act to prevent the worst thing that could happen if you don't act. By Holly Lisle Act Prevent Worst Thing Happen

Acting is acting. By Brent Spiner Acting

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. By Gary Cooper General Consensus Act

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it. By Lauren London Art People Acting Love Film

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. By Melissa Leo Acting Truth Learn Business Reflected

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that. By Michael Sheen Broadly Speaking Act Acting Aware

Act first, explain later. By Dan Brown Act Explain

Acting truly is a love of mine. By David Lambert Acting Mine Love

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances By Sanford Meisner Acting Circumstances Ability Live Truthfully

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. By Armand Assante Acting Physical Emotional Sensation Total

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be. By Rose Mciver Live Lives Reason Feel Act

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. By Emile M. Cioran Act Future Imminent Tangible Anchor

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you. By Ryan Gosling Act Person Thing Join Encourage

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. By Morgan Freeman Backwards Exercise Sat Asked Close

Acting is pretending to be someone else. By Anna Paquin Acting Pretending

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Show Act Character Sit Sleep

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration. By Tia Carrere Admiration Act Perform Hopes Attention

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be. By Julie Delpy Acting Explain Feeling Makes Insecure

To act is easy; to think is hard. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Easy Hard Act

I'm not one of those people who has an act. By Ani Difranco Act People

The art of acting is to be other than what you are. By Whoopi Goldberg Art Acting

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. By Carrie Fisher Acting Adolescence Engenders Harbours Qualities

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. By Anthony Rapp Acting Gym Core Shape Concentrate

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were. By Clive Davis Act Schoolwork Brooklyn Gardenvariety Ambitious

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. By Paul Newman Acting Experience Question Absorbing People

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves. By Darryl Hickman Acting Aliveness Purest Form Urge

Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless. By Jason Bennett Acting Act Experiencing Lifeless Turns

If you're not acting, you're not an actor. By Lance Henriksen Acting Actor

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be. By Nicolas Cage Actors Greatest Tool Imagination Resource

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. By Claudette Colbert Believed Acting Instinct Start

When it gets down to it you just have to act. By Aaron Eckhart Act

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. By Peter O'toole Acting Man Human Forcing

For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously! By Stevie Richards Act Dangerous Bunch Vicious

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating. By Gary Busey Acting Absence Creating Believing Truth

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times. By Leonardo Dicaprio Acting Maintain Spontaneity Present Time

Life is an act - most of it, anyway. Get out there today and pretend you're in charge, for goodness' sake. Do you hear me? Lift up your head and pretend." A flicker of a smile passed over her face. "It's the secret to everything. By Kate Alcott Life Act Pretend Charge Sake

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. By Clemence Poesy Acting Makes Life Understand Beautiful

Life is not a one act play By Alex M. Smith Life Play Act

Acting is what I'm living and breathing on a day-to-day basis. By Ruby Rose Basis Acting Living Breathing

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. By River Phoenix Halloween Acting Mask Put

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature. By Peter Riegert Function People Acting Draw Characteristics

I write, but I also act. By Eric Bogosian Write Act

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play. By Shawnee Smith Acting Tennis Game Opponent Play

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. By William Hurt People Acting Bring Closer Understand

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain. By Giovanni Ribisi Acting Ephemeral Forever Making Painting

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control. By Noel Coward State Acting Mad Appearing Control

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway. By Karl Lagerfeld Act Life Pantomime