Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine
I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love,… — Tracey Gold
The only thing I like about being an actress is acting. — Elizabeth Ashley
I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me. — Mac Miller
Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING — Michael Chekhov
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. — Meryl Streep
Money or no money, acting is my calling — Claire Danes
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true… — Socrates
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't… — Richard Dreyfuss
When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it. — James Cameron
The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning. — Danielle LaPorte
Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man… — Augusto Boal
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to… — Jacqueline Bisset
I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Acting is fun... don't let that get around! — Sanford Meisner
None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success. — Nelson Mandela
Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people. — J C Ryle
Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay. — Stephen Colbert
If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting… — Charles Grandison Finney
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will… — C.S. Lewis
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting.… — Marlon Brando
You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well… — Ban Ki-moon
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use… — Albert Ellis
When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has… — Kyra Sedgwick
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out… — Beth Henley

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