Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.
You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
When the heart acts the body is its slave.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Our only security is our ability to change.
A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked the...
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for havi...
What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radi...
