“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
John Barrymore

“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.”
Robert De Niro

“To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.”
Peter Stormare

“Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.”
Bokeem Woodbine

“I'm much more interested in what's behind acting, which is the inquiry into the human condition.”
Barbara Harris