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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Leadership Thinking Way Most

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Christopher Reeve

Wisdom Hero Power Maturity

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Best Time Look You

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Amanda Seyfried

Music Soul You Singing

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

Good Politics People Think

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

Work Good Day Boss

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

Ride Bike Loved Doing

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Michelle Dockery

Myself Being Myself Enjoy Singing

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Vanessa Hudgens

Cute Me Tree Partner

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

World Gender Way Present

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I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

Myself Alone Being Myself Together

Modeling is really silent acting.

Modeling Silent Really

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.

Alan Dershowitz

You Way Saying Back

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Strength Weakness Emotions While

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Attitude Change Look You Your

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

Life Me People Grateful

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

Stanley Kubrick

Experience You View Unique

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.

Moments Career Most Front

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Excellence Play Like Matters

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Innovation People World Own

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Motivational Thought You Sympathy

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

Best Children Imagination Ship

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

Change You Way Own

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Loneliness Answer Greatest Found

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Mike Krzyzewski

Beauty Me You Teamwork

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

Life Goals Time You

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