Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it...

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

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

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the...

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein