"Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over."-Alan Rickman
"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience-so we're all different."-Ian McKellen
"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."-James Dean
"It's what I learn from the greatest actors I still work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
-Morgan Freeman
"Acting is everybody's favourite second job."-Jack Nicholson
"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."
-Hugh Jackman
"With any part you play,there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."-Johnny Depp
"I think that Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but they're running the asylum."
-Robert de Niro
