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Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.


Thomas Kretschmann

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KELLY JONES Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE F. BURNS Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS All fertile ideas are futile, all made money meaningless, if truth and honesty is not upheld.
APURVA GAGLANI It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
CONFUCIUS Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
KAREN GILLAN If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Int...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
COLUM MCCANN Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.
DAVEED DIGGS Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine...
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE We have received numerous emails (from family members) saying they appreciated the tone and sensitiv...
ADAM FOGELSON Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
NEAL BOORTZ People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
LIL TREYCO People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
TREYCO To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
JOHN RUSKIN To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
JOHN RUSKIN An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth...
BORIS BECKER Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
JAMES E. FAUST Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
NEAL BOORTZ I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do i...
JAMES WOODS The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
ABU BAKR We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compati...
DAN ARIELY The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, hone...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.
LUKE EVANS The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE F. BURNS Just let the wardrobe do the acting
JACK NICHOLSON On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
ROSALIND RUSSELL Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry...
GLENDA JACKSON The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardles...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
ELAINE DUNDY The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing...
BRYANT MCGILL When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.
THERESE BENEDICT An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as mu...
BORIS BECKER Contrary to Thomas' carefully cultivated public persona, he is capable of abhorrent behavior in priv...
ANUCHA BROWNE SANDERS Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN The truth is something powerful, the truth is something many can't handle, the truth is something ma...
GBABY All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to the...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE The truth is that no one is truthful these days!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Good friends of integrity are honor, truth, reliability, wholesomeness and honesty.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN How would your life be different if…You approached all relationships with authenticity and honesty...
STEVE MARABOLI I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
OSCAR WILDE The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
JOHN GIELGUD I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
OSCAR WILDE You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop
JACK NICHOLSON My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Ac...
TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN There are no small parts. Only small actors.
MILAN KUNDERA You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it...
HELEN HAYES I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
BRIGITTE BARDOT The best actors do not let the wheels show.
MILAN KUNDERA I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n...
JULIA ROBERTS The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLER I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
EWAN MCGREGOR I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t...
ORSON WELLES Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing...
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EWAN MCGREGOR Nicole - Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarras...
EWAN MCGREGOR Why am I here? You guys are so fantastic.
KATE REID For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything...
RACHEL CUSK Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.
KEN POIROT Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,
MONTY PYTHON All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
JOHN RZEZNIK No One In the World Care For Others!!!!!!! Thats the real truth of the Life!!!
VIPIN ONGALATHE For fast acting relief, try slowing down
LILY TOMLIN We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS The thing most people find attractive is truth and honesty. That’s what is going to win the hearts...
PAUL FRAZIER life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
JOHN GRISHAM Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part
WILLIAM HAZLITT If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
RACHAEL LEIGH The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than ...
BETTE DAVIS A lot of what acting is paying attention.
NANCY REAGAN The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anyt...
REESE WITHERSPOON Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ...
NORMAN COUSINS Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circum...
SAM WORTHINGTON We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts...
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