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I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.