Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our… — Constantin Stanislavski
Acting has been very useful to me. — Jane Asher
Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a… — Jane Asher
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles. — Marilyn Ferguson
You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken,… — Tom Welling
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather… — James Paul Gee
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of… — Dana Spiotta
I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on. — Jason Dohring
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and… — Catherine Hicks
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting.… — Berenice Bejo
Acting makes you live plenty of lives. — Emmanuelle Riva
In acting, you draw so much on your private life. — Emmanuelle Riva
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered… — Cody Horn
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life. — Cody Horn
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! — Rich Sommer
I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor. — Unknown Author
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about. — Catherine Hicks
Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good. — Xavier Samuel
Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving… — Lysa TerKeurst
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of… — Linda Lavin
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be. — Leonardo DiCaprio
I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my… — Nicole Kidman
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength. — Pema Chodron

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