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

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting. — Xavier Dolan

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

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it. — Joanne Woodward

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

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read. — Laura Vandervoort

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. — William Shakespeare

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. — Leo Rosten

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

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. — Michael Shurtleff

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time. — Elvis Presley

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it. — Victor Mature

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. — William Shakespeare

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor." — Tom Waits

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. — Anne Rice

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role. — George C. Scott

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else. — Scott Bakula

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. — Susannah York

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18. — Robert De Niro

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. — Stephen King

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star. — Martin Freeman

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict. — Ewan McGregor

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant ... does it get any better than this? — Ewan McGregor

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. — John Boorman

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. — Tallulah Bankhead

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer? — Jonah Hill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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