Actor Quote by Tim DeKay

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Saba Qamar

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

— John Hurt

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how…

— John Hurt

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

— Tom Hiddleston

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

— Sanford Meisner

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually…

— Y'lan Noel

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

— George Bernard Shaw

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power…

— Reese Witherspoon

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are…

— Mike Nichols

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever…

— Lili Taylor

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given…

— Ben Whishaw