“The most difficult thing in the world is to get a pure, definite, and final idea of what is meant by 'good acting'.”— George Arliss
“When you're doing a character, you want to be that character. You want to be that person.”— Method Man
“My job is to bring the text to life. The text is the score, the text is the blueprint.”— F. Murray Abraham
“I think there's a big misconception with the new generation of actors that you can just go out there and wing it.”— Jensen Ackles
“The whole business of being an actor is to be somebody else, and I find that a wonderful, mesmerising thing.”— Jenny Agutter
“I think of myself as an actor. The work is the work. I don't think of the work as different because it's a blockbuster or an independent film.”— Karen Allen