Pastoral Resources

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

For me, acting is doing.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.