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"Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing."
"It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it."
"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
"For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters."
"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something."
"Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally."
"You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult."
"Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare."
"Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life."
"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."
"I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache."
"The legs are the wheels of creativity."
"I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio."
"Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."
"Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person."
"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."
"I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week."
"Acting is in everything but the words."
"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."
"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
