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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting. — Kal Penn

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing. — Jean-Louis Barrault

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen. — Ralph Richardson

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it. — Jill Bennett

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun. — Shailene Woodley

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting. — Berenice Marlohe

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it — Mark Rubinstein

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. — Charles De Gaulle

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid. — Michael Welch

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

Ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses. — Laurie A. Helgoe

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. — Anthony Hopkins

This is a never-ending story we're involved in. We're just part of the acting crew. — Art Hochberg

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. — Clint Eastwood

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting. — Anthony Hopkins

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. — Glenn Close

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it. — Taraji P. Henson

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. — Sarah Gavron

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done. — Paul Muni

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business. — Beverly Johnson

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. — Jill Scott

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. — Christina Westover

Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant. — Robert A. Heinlein

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art. — Konstantin Stanislavski

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film. — Donnie Yen

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form ... But I never want it to take over my acting. — Lupita Nyong'o

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. — Alfred Lunt

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo. — Cleo Moore

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. — Art Alexakis

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you. — Tyne Daly

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually. — Sinqua Walls

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up. — Antonio Banderas

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that. — Esha Gupta

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. — Eva Mendes

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process. — Art Alexakis

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. — Franz Grillparzer

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

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

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body. — Karl Kraus

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity. — Sean Berdy

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating. — Pushpa Rana

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher. — Forest Whitaker

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. — Amandla Stenberg

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. — Alla Nazimova

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work. — William Holden

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. — Zoe Kravitz

LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art. — Mykyta Isagulov

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that. — Nicole Kidman

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement. — Konstantin Stanislavski

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

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. — Ernst Levy

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. — Mel Gibson

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. — Fred Gwynne

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. — Nicolas Cage

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. — Francois Delsarte

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative. — Tod Machover