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ACTOR QUOTES PART2 - Take a look at Part 2 of some of Quotes about Acting from some of the greatest actors of our time.

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ACTOR'S QUOTES PART 2

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
-- Bernie Mac

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
-- Kyle MacLachlan

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
-- William H. Macy

Every actor has to establish a presence that not only fits the overall needs of the story but allows him to interact with other actors in a credible and meaningful way. Every actor wants to work under conditions and with material that enables them to create and use their craft.
-- Tobey Maguire

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
-- John Malkovich

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
-- Walter Matthau

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
-- Ian Mckellen

If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. It's not to denigrate expensive movies. I don't want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
-- Alfred Molina

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
-- Viggo Mortensen

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
-- Bill Murray

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
-- Liam Neeson

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
-- Paul Newman

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
-- Jack Nicholson

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.
-- Robert De Niro

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
-- Nick Nolte

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
-- Jack Palance

I liked seeing myself in a different costumes and doing different actions. It's a chance to be something you're not.
-- Bill Paxton

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
-- Gregory Peck

I appreciate words, and I appreciate acting, so combining those elements into a film is the ultimate act of appreciation.
-- Sean Penn

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
-- William Petersen

I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head!
-- River Phoenix

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
-- Brad Pitt

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
-- Sidney Poitier

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
-- Richard Pryor

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
-- Robert Redford

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
-- John Ritter

All I know is, I don't do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull. All I want 'em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don't bump into each other.
-- Jason Robards

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
-- Tim Roth

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
-- Peter Sellers

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
-- William Shatner

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
-- Kevin Spacey

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
-- Sylvester Stallone

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.
-- Jimmy Stewart

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
-- Donald Sutherland

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
-- Benicio Del Toro

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
-- Mark Wahlberg

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
-- Denzel Washington

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
-- Orson Welles

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