Acting Quote by Helena Bonham Carter

In acting it's all about suspension of disbelief.

— Nicola Coughlan

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're…

— Colin Firth

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that…

— Edward Norton

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your…

— Walton Goggins

I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too…

— James Garner

I always tell people that, if you feel like you're portraying a character really well, you're not acting. If you can reach that point…

— Travis Aaron Wade

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the…

— Mike Colter

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

— Leo Rosten

Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving…

— Jason Bateman

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And…

— James Cagney

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

— Misha Green

The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the…

— Sanford Meisner