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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Thomas Reid

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Jack Nicholson

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Marlon Brando

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Ingrid Bergman

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Wordsworth

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

Kate Winslet

A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Unknown

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct orders and in his name, against men, women and children, Christians and Muslims. Osama Bin Laden claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, but in reality he made a mockery of the basic values of his and all other religions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

A man gets what he wants by acting smart; a woman, by playing dumb.

Unknown

It gives us a very, very bad name, not just internationally. I have a great deal of difficulty understanding how we can hold someone, pick someone up, particularly someone who might be an American citizen--even if they were caught somewhere abroad--acting against American interests, and hold them without ever giving them an opportunity to appear before a magistrate.

James A. Baker III

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Jeff Goldblum

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

MARLON BRANDO

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Katharine Hepburn

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

James Caan

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Glenda Jackson

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

John Cassavetes

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Tim Robbins

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Harold H. Greene

He was acting on a reason other than the avoidance of pain. The sentiment was loyalty, and it felt glorious.

Vanna Bonta

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Marlon Brando

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