This study compared the analogical reasoning of three groups that differed in their creative expertise: professional actors, undergraduate acting majors, and nonactors. Using an Analogy Finding Task, in which participants identified valid and nonvalid verbal analogies, three aspects of participants' analogical reasoning were measured: the number of analogies participants selected as valid (Quantity), the rate of true-positive analogical identification (Sensitivity), and the rate of true-negative identification of nonvalid analogies (Selectivity). The Analogy Finding Task was administered under both a baseline and a "think creatively" prompt. Results showed that actors (professional or student) were significantly more Sensitive to valid analogies than nonactors, and these creative experts were significantly more influenced by the "think creatively" prompt, which increased the Quantity, and decreased the Selectivity, of actors' analogical reasoning. To explain these results, we forward the general hypothesis that creative experts may be more flexible in response to creativity-relevant contextual cues than nonexperts.