Acting Quote by Charles Grandison Finney

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice…

— Charlotte Charke

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

— Samuel Smiles

“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling…

— Alexander Lowen

I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will,…

— Idris Elba

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

— Edmund Burke

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of…

— Nicolas Chamfort