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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.