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Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience. - Larry Moss

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself. - Michael Chekhov

Nothing so distinguishes great acting -- in any style, in any historical period -- than the feeling that the actor has the potential to 'go off' at any moment, and to unleash an explosion -- a flood of lava, that will be totally uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Great Acting always dances with danger! - Robert Cohen

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. - Alec Guinness

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. - Bette Davis

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. - Ellen Terry

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. - Shirley Booth

For most actors, success is achieved through study, struggle, preparation, infinite trial and error, training, discipline, experience and work! - Robert Cohen

You need three things in the theatre -- the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. ~Kenneth Haigh

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

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. ~Lawrence Barrett

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. - Paul Newman

Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy. - Clive Swift

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other -- they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean? - Jack Lemon

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