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Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. — Lee Daniels

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. — Denis Leary

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting. — Rhys Ifans

Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide. — Boyd Holbrook

We all are actors. The moment we step out of our comfort zones, the moment we are interacting with another, the actor in us comes alive. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." - Helen Mirren — Judith Weston

That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary. — Michael Sheen

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. — Martha Wainwright

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting. — Stanley Tucci

Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time. — Craig Ferguson

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. — Anne Rice

More waiting...actors are paid to wait. We do the acting for free. — Jason Chan

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan. — John Carney

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits. — Vincent H. O'Neil

Acting is all about big hair and funny props ... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. — Harold Ramis

If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do. — Derek Jacobi

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work. — Mike Leigh

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying. — Leonardo DiCaprio

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. — Jean Kerr

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. — Stewart Stafford

I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting. — Rachel Ward

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. — Debra Wilson

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people. — Ben Mendelsohn

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. — Matthew Lillard

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who ... can be divided ... into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. — W. H. Auden

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. — Lauren Bacall

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences. — Liv Ullmann

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has. — Logan Lerman

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. — Tim Robbins

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. — Lauren Graham

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. — Ewan McGregor