Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. — Jack Welch
Acting is very start and stop. — Estelle
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object… — Stanton Peele
(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days. — Tammy Bruce
A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether… — Plato
"Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's… — Alexandra Potter
All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean… — Desmond Tutu
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a… — Prentice Mulford
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten… — Julian Sands
I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the… — Richard Griffiths
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because… — Jane Elliott
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside… — Dan Millman
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home,… — Woody Allen
I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman… — Caroline Rhea
A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He… — Thomas Carlyle
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak… — John Burroughs
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. — Ben Schwartz
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. — Robert Breault
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. — Sydney Pollack
I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it,… — Kelli O'Hara
I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality. — Diane Guerrero

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