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“If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.”

Ifs Ends Acting Dog Behavior Manners Behaviour Rats Behaviorism Pavlov

Author:Richard Rosen

“Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.”

Men Heart Christian Interest Acting Behavior Favors Minors Injured Prompts Great Ones

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.”

“It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.”

Thinking Humans Wells Made Acting Behavior Tunes Human Behavior

Author:Scoot McNairy

“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.”

“I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. If he esteemed virtue above all other things, neither the favors of fortune nor the advantages of position would change a man's face or heart.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.”

Thinking Age Acting Lord Behavior Contrary Inevitable Inclination Sophistry

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really hard to make that interesting. I like the discovery of characters. I think people are smart. Audiences are intelligent and can figure things out by just watching behaviors.”

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Author:Andie MacDowell

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

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Author:Robert De Niro

“a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.”

Humans Long Past Acting Danger Behavior Response Human Behavior Acting Out

Book:Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

“An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.”

Acting Behavior Theatre Pounds Best Acting Acting Teachers

Book:Sanford Meisner on Acting

Source: Sanford Meisner on Acting

“It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.”

Inspirational Motivational Actors Individual Views Acting Attitude Greater Talent Personality Behavior Capacity Experience Increase Point Of View Coaches Human Behavior Evoke

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques