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

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

Acting to me is always reacting. -- Spencer Tracy

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

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. -- Dakota Fanning

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself. -- Charlotte Rampling

To live is not to breathe but to act. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper. -- Vin Diesel

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. -- Kelly Reilly

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. -- Baltasar Gracian

Acting is in your soul. -- Latanya Richardson

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. -- Steve Mcqueen

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons. -- Michael Sheen

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

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible. -- Sarah Shahi

Everything is acting. -- Marilyn Manson

I act when I'm not in the mood. -- T. Harv Eker

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. -- William Shakespeare

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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. -- John Fowles

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. -- Anthony Hopkins

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. -- Kurt Fuller

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time -- Meryl Streep

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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself. -- Klaus Kinski

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

This is not an act -- Ellen G. White

What we think, we act. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening. -- Wayne Rogers

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. -- Rhonda Riley

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

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act. -- Abbe Pierre

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. -- Kate Winslet

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. -- Ted Shackelford

Acting is my job. -- Goran Visnjic

Acting is a mysterious process. -- Bertie Carvel

Would you like an interview for the drama, too?"
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting. -- Tanith Lee

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch. -- Christopher Meloni

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. -- Denzel Washington

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy. -- Peter Watts

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

Acting to me is real life - I don't act. -- Bai Ling

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 -- Masiela Lusha

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. -- Lee Strasberg

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. -- Low Kay Hwa

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected. -- Preity Zinta

Act. Procrastination costs money. -- Farshad Asl

Act to prevent the worst thing that could happen if you don't act. -- Holly Lisle

Acting is acting. -- Brent Spiner

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. -- Gary Cooper

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. -- Lauren London

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. -- Melissa Leo

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. -- Michael Sheen

Act first, explain later. -- Dan Brown

Acting truly is a love of mine. -- David Lambert

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances -- Sanford Meisner

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. -- Armand Assante

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. -- Rose Mciver

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. -- Emile M. Cioran

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. -- Morgan Freeman

Acting is pretending to be someone else. -- Anna Paquin

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration. -- Tia Carrere

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be. -- Julie Delpy

To act is easy; to think is hard. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Act innocently.
Act intelligently.
Act instinctively.
Act impressively. -- Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not one of those people who has an act. -- Ani Difranco

The art of acting is to be other than what you are. -- Whoopi Goldberg

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. -- Carrie Fisher

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. -- Anthony Rapp

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. -- Clive Davis

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

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. -- Darryl Hickman

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. -- Jason Bennett

If you're not acting, you're not an actor. -- Lance Henriksen

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. -- Nicolas Cage

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. -- Claudette Colbert

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

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. -- Peter O'toole

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! -- Stevie Richards

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating. -- Gary Busey

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times. -- Leonardo Dicaprio

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. -- Kate Alcott

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. -- Clemence Poesy

Life is not a one act play -- Alex M. Smith

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

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. -- River Phoenix

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. -- Peter Riegert

I write, but I also act. -- Eric Bogosian

Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play. -- Shawnee Smith

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. -- William Hurt

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. -- Giovanni Ribisi

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. -- Noel Coward

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway. -- Karl Lagerfeld

Acting is a form of confusion. -- Tallulah Bankhead

Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained. -- David Amerland

When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it. -- Henry Ian Cusick