Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience… — Rex Harrison
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. — Jeremy Irons
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic. — Ben Kingsley
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to… — Frances McDormand
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money… — Frances McDormand
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into… — Bernard Crick
We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling… — Eugenia Price
I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be… — Bo Schembechler
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing… — Bertrand Russell
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was… — Laurence Olivier
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are… — Albert Einstein
I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing. — Liza Minnelli
Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both. — Marshall McLuhan
Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another. — Roy Peter Clark
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing. — Jessica Hahn
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold… — Richard Briers
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability. — Pola Negri
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and… — Marisa Tomei
The art of acting is to be other than what you are. — Whoopi Goldberg
Acting is making it seem like it's happening now. — Anne Jackson
I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators. — Mort Sahl
Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed. — Roberto Rossellini
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen. — John Cassavetes

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