Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting".
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.
Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.
When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.
You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.
Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.
I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become famous I would maybe like to experiment with acting, or I have a good voice so maybe a little bit of singing. I'm going to take singing lessons, so who knows.