Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person. — Brian Tracy
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can… — David Simon
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. — Sophocles
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic… — Wayne Dyer
I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it — Patrick Troughton
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the… — Rob Lowe
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction,… — Andy Stanley
How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was… — Johnny Weissmuller
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal… — Everett Ruess
I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction. — Alicia Machado
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent. — Lee Majors
It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes,… — Peter Biskind
You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. — Michael Scott
What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach… — Unknown Author
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me… — Mary Doria Russell
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's… — Paddy Considine
All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or… — Paddy Considine
For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but… — Jeffrey Wright
Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of… — Brian Ellis
Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no… — James W. Sire
I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling. — Joan Severance
We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We… — Edward T Welch
I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. — Tim Daly
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and… — Robert A. Heinlein
Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's… — Lusia Strus

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