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I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play. — Eric Bana

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen. — Bret McKenzie

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me. — Billy Bob Thornton

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. — Justin Theroux

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself. — Julie Kavner

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play. — Anne Rice

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me. — Carice Van Houten

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor. — Simon McBurney

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. — John Lithgow

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play. — Claudia Christian

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. — Emma Stone

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing. — Anson Mount

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' — Zoe Tapper

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

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays. — Todd Haynes

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

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. — Arthur Smith

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want. — Wendi McLendon-Covey

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have. — Jacqueline Bisset

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp. — Tom Holland

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. — Oscar Wilde

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different. — Jesse Eisenberg

Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite. — Stephen Charnock

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play. — Lynn Redgrave

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. — Stella Adler

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting. — Malin Akerman

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play. — Miranda Cosgrove

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy. — Viola Spolin

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game. — Bailey Chase

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. — Gillian Flynn

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play. — Shawnee Smith

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. — Dean Cain

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend. — James Van Der Beek

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while. — Melissa Ordway

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life. — Ethel Waters

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play. — Kellan Lutz

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. — Kaitlyn Dever

By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past — William Hardy McNeill

One play down and 497 to Go! — Ray S. Jones

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts. — Jan Karon

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream. — Jamie Sives

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they're clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you. — Gary Oldman

The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb. — V. Alexander

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. — Michael C. Hall

What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy. — Tyler James Williams

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. — Dakota Fanning

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it. — Rooney Mara

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. — William Shakespeare

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play. — Julianna Margulies

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. — Jesse Eisenberg

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything. — Andy Serkis

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. — Meryl Streep

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.' — Bel Powley

The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand. — Robert Alan Aurthur

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create. — Jonathan Tucker

The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in. — Poorna Jagannathan

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting. — Margaret Millar

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. — Stella Adler

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious. — Joan Cusack

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne. — John Dryden

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity. — Brit Marling

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job. — Samantha Morton

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak. — Sylvester Stallone

The play's the thing. — William Shakespeare

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy. — Clint Howard

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. — Pawel Szajda

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well. — Anson Mount

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. — Johnny Depp

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.' — James Michael Tyler

As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. — Seneca.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. — Seneca.

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all. — Cassie Scerbo

Each man has some part to play. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play. — Santigold

Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself. — Lauren Graham

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman