It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father I'll play the mother.' You know you dress up you play they pay you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

When I arrived at Columbia I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry French history French literature.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses psychology courses history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I love acting. It's my playground it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.

To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

I fell in love with theater there and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

Under the administration of George W. Bush you will recall federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens too willing to please the requests of everybody thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Now that I'm more mature in a funny way I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it Brando knew it.

One of the things I like about acting is that in a funny way I come back to myself.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I mean sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor and they just don't deliver because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful and they get that mixed up sometimes or don't even notice that that's the thing.