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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Robert Redford

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Sir Ralph Richardson

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

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.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan

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.
Jeanne Moreau

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

Acting is happy agony.
Sir Alec Guiness

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Glenda Jackson

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

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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.

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

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.

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

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.



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