1. Oscar Wilde - “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

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2. John Wayne - “Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.”

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3. Denzel Washington - “Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.”

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4. Logan Pearsall Smith - “We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”

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5. George Bernard Shaw - “Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend — if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second — if there is one.”

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6. Alexander Pope - “Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”

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7. Wilson Mizner - “Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor — unassisted.”

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8. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.”

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9. Dr. Samuel Johnson - “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”

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10. Dr. Samuel Johnson - “If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.”

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11. William James - “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

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12. Thomas Heywood - “The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.”

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13. Oliver Goldsmith - “On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'T was only that when he was off he was acting.”

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14. Oliver Goldsmith - “Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”

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15. George Eliot - “The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”

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16. Agnes de Mille - “When you perform ... you are out of yourself—larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.”

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17. Charlie Chaplin - “You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.”

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18. Marlon Brando - “If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

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19. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - “EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”

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20. Aristotle - “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

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21. Nancy Reagan - “I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead of us.”

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22. Alexander Pope - “Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”

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23. Johann Kaspar Lavater - “Act well at the moment, And you have performed a good action for all eternity.”

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24. John Heywood - “The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill.”

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25. Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield - “Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”

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