Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there… — Jeanne Moreau
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. — John Cassavetes
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice,… — Queen Victoria
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. — Robert Lloyd
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be… — John Calvin
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the… — Ben Kingsley
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher. — Forest Whitaker
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go… — Enrico Fermi
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently. — Steve Pavlina
I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do. — Nicole Kidman
Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability. — Jude Law
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and… — Monica Lewinsky
Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them… — Jeremy Miller
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically… — Gary North
I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink… — Haley Joel Osment
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. — Mark Ruffalo
If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear. — Anna Deavere Smith
I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or… — Sam Mendes
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me… — Casey Affleck
Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable — Jose Maria Aznar
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life,… — Joan D. Chittister
You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. — Peter May
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused… — Anna Brackett
There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as… — Theodore Roosevelt
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work… — Stella Adler

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